Question

What does sitting at the table represent in Langston Hughes’s poem "I, Too"?

Answer 1

The table in the dining room is where important people meet, talk and dine as equals. Right now, the speaker, being black, is forced to eat in the kitchen. As a descendant of slaves, he is not deemed a human being who has his own will and the right to say something. He is not even deemed a person who has every right to love America and try to change it for the better.