When Hughes writes, in the first two lines of his poem, __et America be America again/ Let it be the dream it used to be,_ he acknowledges that America is primarily a dream, a hope, an aspiration, that may never be fully attainable, but that spurs us to be better, to be larger. He follows this with the repeated counterpoint, __merica never was America to me,_ and through the rest of this remarkable poem he alternates between the oppressed and the wronged of America, and the great dreams that they have for their country, that can never be extinguished.
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