Langston Hughes's poem 'I, Too' ('I, too, sing America') is a response to which poet?

1. AHerman Melville
2. BWalt Whitman
3. CHenry David Thoreau
4. DEmily Dickinson

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Correct answer: B. Walt Whitman

Explanation

Hughes answers Whitman's 'I Hear America Singing': the 'darker brother' sent to eat in the kitchen insists he too is America.