My first thought about the poem “A Negro Speaks of Rivers,” is the message the poem sends. The title itself makes me think that Langston Hughes is writing about the memories of slave and their different societies, which presents in history. In the second line of Mr. Hughes poem “I known rivers as ancient as the world,” he wanted to show the different societies were present since the first days of the early civilization.
The word river in the poem to me means the path of each society and there locations. The speaker mention the Euphrates, the Congo, and the Mississippi rivers. These names represent the different times in history an
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