I am going to assume we only have to choose from Whitman and Hughes. This is how I would match those poets to the literary characteristics: 1. <u>Walt Whitman</u>: - romanticizes the life of the laborer: we can see that in his "A Song for Occupations" where he sings about laborers and their idyllic lives - uses repetition for emphasis: he often repeats certain words in his poems in order to highlight a meaning - avoids traditional poetic devices: he uses unorthodox poetic devices which are not usually found in poems, especially of that period
2. <u>Langston Hughes</u>: - part of the Harlem Renaissance: this refers to the movement of black artists, one of which was Hughes - looks forward to racial equality: this one is obvious - describes a fragmented United States: fragmented over slavery and equality, mostly
