Using textual evidence to demonstrate how the poems could provide future students insight into U.S. literary history

Using textual evidence to demonstrate how the poems could provide future students insight into U.S. literary history

 

Explain both: how the poems exemplify themes, aesthetic forms, or literary movements (race, modernism, and mobility) and what new topics, aesthetic styles, or historical debates the poems might introduce. The poems are: “Words Like Freedom” by Langston Hughes and “Incident” by Countee Cullen.