In the poem "Let America Be America Again," Langston Hughes does a nice job of depicting two different points of view on America itself. At the beginning of the poem, he contradicts himself with the parentheses saying he never believed things he's saying. In a way, it could be two different people speaking. However, it could also be the same person, just their conscience. Another possibility is that it could be things being said at different times. An example of this would be if someone were to write a story about something that happened the day before. The things said in the parentheses might be the person's thoughts when reading their story over.
The two perspectives of America are as follows. The first one is that America is a grand country, a land of liberty. Some people believe everyone in America is happy and proud of their country. America is a grand land, isn't it? However, the second perspective is that the country was set up for failure from the beginning. The unsuccessful, for lack of a better word, people see the country from this perspective. The people who have been through pain and hardships are the ones who no longer have faith in this land of liberty.
The America we have today is a hopeless place full of sadness and stuff. The poem's title is "Let America Be America Again," implying that America, when it is going through bad times, is not actually America.
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