Question

1. “Dream Variations” by Langston Hughes and “The Tropics in New York” by Claude McKay both depict a longing for another place. What are the places and what do they represent?
2. In Langston Hughes’s poem “I, Too,” the speaker refers to himself as “the darker brother.” In “A Black Man Talks of Reaping,” the speaker refers to the white man’s children as “my brother’s sons.” Why is it significant that the poets used the word brother? How do the two poems use the word differently?

3. What role does freedom play in the poems from this unit? Choose three of the poems and describe how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom or the desire for it.

Answer 1

The narrator talks about a place where trees bear a lot of fruit. Cluade McKay was born in the West Indies where the place was loaded with trees just like the ones he describes in the first part of his poem.  

Langston Hughes is very angry. The term "Brother" has a new non-biblical context in his time. He's showing the duality of the term, not a new "universal" kinship. Sometimes his brother is black, sometimes his brother is white. 

and the last one it's a history that i need to find :)