I picked a poem that I think really like, and it has a great message to it as well. "I, Too" is about the racism blacks faced earlier in America's history. White people back then believed that blacks were inferior to whites. So because of this black it was very segregated, and black people had very right and privileges. This poem is rather simplistic, but with great meaning.
             The first stanza is one sentence that reads "I, too, sing America". So this basically means that even though he is black he also is an American. If he were drafted by a war, he would also have to fight along with white Americans.
             The second stanza begins with "I am the darker brother./ They send me to eat in the kitchen/ when company comes,". I think when he says that he is the darker brother he is either saying that he is an American so he is a brother in that sense, or he is saying that he is a slave and he lives with a white family. The next few lines read "but I laugh,/ and eat well/ and grow strong". So he is just going to not let it bother him too much and he is going to just keep growing to just better himself to prepare for the future.
             The third stanza it reads "Tomorrow,/ I'll be at the table/ when company comes/ nobody'll dare/ say to me/ "eat in the kitchen,"/ then.". So he says that one day he will eat at the table, because black people will be treated equally. He must realize that one day white people will see that black people are only different in the color of their skin. That day is what he is preparing for now by just accepting eating in the kitchen and getting stronger.
             The fourth stanza is "besides,/ they'll see how beautiful I am/ and be ashamed-". So he is now saying that he does know that it is inevitable that white people will someday see that black can hold their own basically. Then he ends with "I, too, am America"...