What idea about America is Hughes trying to convey by including the images of the “steel of freedom" and "leeches on the people's
lives” (lines 71-72)?

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b. the poet identifies with private people.

    in the stanza, dickinson states she doesn't wish to seek fame and recognition from the public eye. nor is she afraid of authority figures, and you can definitely tell she isn't hiding something. more as she identifies with private people, who are not known by the community