Addressing Inequality in the “Land of Opportunity”

The meaning or definition of what the States is, was, or could become is the primary(prenominal) subject that the deuce opposing divisions relate in Langston Hughes poem Let the States be America Again. Both voices acknowledge America is not the America that was envisioned by its founders/architects i.e. a state construct on the principles of freedom and equality, a land of opportunity for all.However, while the low voice simply calls for a recovery of the ideal America, the countenance voice, through articulations of the reality of social inequalities in America, argues for a reexamination of the give tongue to ideal, with the desired effect of making America The land that neer has been yet/And yet must bethe land where every man is free. (lines 19-20) Let America be America again (line 1) , the first loudspeaker system begins. To him, America was a dream of dreamers, a great strong land of love (line 7), where opportunity is real, and support is free/equality is in the a ir we breathe. (line 13) He assertively states his notions of what America ought to be. However, he fails to signalize what America has become instead. He also does not specify who the dreamers that dreamed America be, nor does he clarify who the we for whom equality. The choice of word again and the first speakers constant use of it suggest that to edit America to its right direction, one needs to reacquaint the state to the glories it once had.However the assertion of the indorse speaker of America as the never was contrasts the difference of position of the two speakers. The second speaker contests the accident that America had been the place where equality once reigned as he mumbles back to the first speaker that (Theres never been equality for me/Nor freedom in this homeland of the free.) (lines 15-16) The disillusionment or discontentment in the tone of the second speaker who claims he is one of the people who make America challenges the first speakers glory of America s past.Also read Was the American West a Land of Opportunity?The first speaker talks of freedom, equality for all but he/she could not even realize that thither could be an opposition or challenge to his/her claims so he/she asks Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? /And who are you that draws your veil across the stars? (lines 17-18) when he/she hears mumbles as he/she spoke. The first speaker addresses the person as if their cosmos were hardly thought of as he/she talked about Americas past and future.The second voice introduces himself I am as the first voice is unable to recognize the second voice, who represents disenfranchised classes in America, the very reason America is not his ideal America, shows the first speakers position in the society he seeks altered he is an observer, not immersed in the reality of inequality and selective granting of rights, which the second voice knows first-hand. hike on, he states that he (they) originated the dream of America. He briefl y details Americas founders immigrants all, seeking escape from serfdom in the Old World, desiring a home of the free.According to the second voice, as America was founded by immigrants, and its industries and agriculture were built and maintained by laborers, these members of American society have a historically-supported claim to the freedom and equality deprived of them. The second speaker calls for a collective action of the people to rebuild America to be a place for the people, the dreamers who could call it the land of the free and not just for the few privileged people.The contesting ideas of the two voices/speakers in the poem about America stress that America as a country, as a word and even as a symbol for freedom and equality is a space of get by between those who have the luxury to contemplate an abstract America and those who are immersed with the reality of how oppressive America is to the working classes and the ones with racial distinctions.To one, America is the dream of vague dreamers meant for an unspecified mass. To the other, America is a state built by people wishing to escape oppression in their nations of origin. America could not just be painted in the perspective of one person and that discussion of freedom and equality could not be easily hoped for a country until one recognizes the problems faced by all sectors of the society.