Langston Hughes Compare And Contrast

In both “Dream Variations” by Langston Hughes and “The Tropics in New York” by Claude McKay there is an eager tone. They both are eager or long to be in another place. In "Dream Variations" the speaker longs to be "In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance...Then rest at cool evening Beneath a tall tree While night comes on gently". In "The Tropics in New York” the speaker longs to be back in his home country where the "Bananas [are] ripe and green, and ginger-root, Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grapefruit, Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs".
Both of these places that the speakers are eager to be in represents freedom, happiness, and safety.They both would feel free, happy and safe if they