Letting_America_Be

Letting America Be Letting America Be In the beginning of the poem, “Let America Be America Again,” Hughes writes about America as if it were once a country which people were able to “dream,” and be “free,” or never did “scheme.” However, our country was basically a place to take refuge from religious oppression and to make a lot of money for the country who supported us financially. Letting American be what she intended to be, is the spirit Hughes is trying to convey. We need to revive “the dream that’s almost dead.” Without the dream we once had, our country would not be what she is today. The spark of hope that things will get better always kept the “blue-collared” crew of America going. The “sweat and blood” and “faith and pain” held our country by the threads. Through the rain and snow, our country was built from the bottom up, by the workers of America. The workers of America, who never had the “American dream” come to a reality knows freedom is a whimsy thought which one day might come true. Our scheming country was hungry to find gold in the soil, to america, country, dream, need, yet, place, never, freedom, people, make, free, equality, american, workers, white, through, hughes, come, came, homeland, while, take, soil, servants, redeem, poem, passed, ourselves, one, once, money, mighty, means, longer, land