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The correct answer is A. You should never tell anyone else your goal because if you don't achieve it you will be considered a failure. This is not the correct option, as you must take ownership of your goal and let it be known that you are actively trying to accomplish it.
Langston Hughes most likely allude to Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" because
- To expand on the ideas in Whitman's poem
- To link his poem with another great American poem
Explanation:
In Whitman's poem the poet states that many group of people sing to America. He mentions that these group of people consist of the men and women ,nurses,mechanics and woodcutter of america, but he does not mention about the black people residing in America. Hughas epands the idea of whitmans poem by mentioning that even the black also sing for America as they are the citizen of America.
Another thing Hughes did in was to link his poem with another great American poem, so that his poem can gain more visibility .
So we can say that ,
Langston Hughes most likely allude to Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" because
- To expand on the ideas in Whitman's poem
- To link his poem with another great American poem
I believe this is personification, but Vanessa may have a different answer.