In the poem"I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes, the speaker's painful optimism show that he is hurt about the way he is being treated in his homeland but he has hope and knows that things will one day change. Even though he's treated like dirt compared to white men and has obviously been through great hardship because of this, he still believes and loves his country which is a mark of a great man.
I like "painful optimism."
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