Complex sentence: In the poem, Hughes describes a ubiquitous racial oppression that degrades African Americans at the time, and he writes from the perspective of an inferior servant to a domineering white family that shoos him away to the kitchen whenever company arrives.
Split into simpler sentences: In the poem, Hughes describes a ubiquitous racial oppression that degrades African Americans at the time. He writes from the perspective of an inferior servant to a domineering white family that shoos him away to the kitchen whenever company arrives.