I Look at the World, Poem Analysis

              In I Look at the World the poet, Langston Hughes, reflects on  the struggles African Americans face under segregation while  using his observations to call for an end to this oppressive system. In order to better analyze this poem in detail and share my  interpretation of its meaning, I need to shed some light on the  historical background events surrounding this struggle, then  emphasize intersectionality highlighting that everyone has their  own experience of discrimination. Finally, I need to elaborate  further on Hughes’s steps taken to build his poem leading to a  final point of greatest intensity: a call to action. All this to prove  that no matter how old this poem is, segregation is still relevant  in our current times and finding a way to combat it is as urgent  now as it was in the sixties.             The poem was written in 1930, in...