Marxist Annotation Example from Let America Be America Again by Dario Sulzman https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8 Please post one line in the poem that you highlighted, followed by an explanation of how you think this line is relevant to a Marxist reading of the poem. Make sure to include your name in your post. en-us 2021-12-02 11:44:14 UTC 2021-12-06 13:02:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Danny https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925149832 (There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.") 
Chose these because It relates to Inequality.

]]> 2021-12-02 13:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925149832 Who said the free? Not me? Surely not me? The millions on relief today? The millions shot down when we strike? The millions who have nothing for our pay? https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925149854 greysean

]]> 2021-12-02 13:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925149854 https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925150332 "I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars." I think this is relevant because it shows how he really feels and how hard slavery is by expressing that he has scars -Careliz ]]> 2021-12-02 13:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925150332 wilmarie https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925151395 " i am the poor white, fooled and  pushed apart. I am the negro bearing slaverys scars" - i chose this because it describes the workers as slavery and even the white can be poor

]]> 2021-12-02 13:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925151395 "Tangled in this ancient endless chain of Profit and power gain.I believe that this is relevant because he explaining how everything is about money profit and greed and nothing more. https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925165854 Jareem]]> 2021-12-02 13:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925165854 https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925166366 ' i am the negro bearing slavery scars " Us african americans today even though we weren't born into slavery we still deal with the aftermath of it we deal with the generational trauma we still have targets on our back because of our skin color that's what i feel he meant by that quote -Brianna G ]]> 2021-12-02 13:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925166366 Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again! https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925178797 jomairys colon 

]]> 2021-12-02 13:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925178797 "Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-- The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America! " He is talking about slavery, and how he wanted to be treated right and want America to actually be the land of the free- Destiny Reed https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925265414 2021-12-02 14:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1925265414 Jada Santos https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1926020174 "Equality is in the air we breathe. There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free" This quote means equality should be for everyone, he wasn't getting that treatment because he was black.]]> 2021-12-02 20:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1926020174 https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1930953173
"I am the man who never got ahead, 
The poorest worker bartered through the years".
 basic what this line is saying that he will never get ahead or far in life because he's a slave. and he works for only a little bit of money.




jaden 

]]> 2021-12-06 12:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1930953173 O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. The reason why this connects to Marxist criticism is that it describes how real and life is free to them and how their homeland is not an opportunity for who gives them that land-Evelyn https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1930992454 2021-12-06 12:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1930992454 danny https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1931007737 "I am the man who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years."

this shows struggle in the person speaking and that they don't feel rewarded enough for the work that they do.]]> 2021-12-06 12:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1931007737 Jada Santos https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1931009530 "Sure, call me any ugly name you choose-- The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!" Hughes is addressing that he is sad that America has turned against its morals. A place where not everyone may be free. However he believes that the ideal of freedom has not yet taken from America.]]> 2021-12-06 12:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1931009530 adriana demo ad96400 https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1931019748 "For im the one who left the dark Ireland's shore and Poland's pain and England's grassy tea and torn from Black Africans strand i came to build a homeland of the free". ]]> 2021-12-06 13:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1931019748 "I am the worker sold to the machine." I chose this because it signifies how much immigrants or have nots have to work for this country to get by for themselves/families when it's fairly easy for the upper class and fortunate to be born into families of wealth. - yami https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1931020534 2021-12-06 13:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dariosulzman1/t8byggq9ndeihoq8/wish/1931020534