Read the first two lines from Langston Hughes’s poem "I, Too, Sing America."
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
How do readers know that Hughes is alluding to Walt Whitman’s poem, “I Hear America Singing”?
Both poems have the word “sing.”
Both poems have the word “America.”
Hughes describes Whitman in his poem.
Whitman’s poem has a very similar title.
