What did Langston Hughes learn from his visit to the rivers? [NU. 2015, 2018]
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers' is one of the earliest poems written by Langston Hughes in 1920. The poem was written while Hughes was going to join his father living in Mexico City with his grandmother. On the train when he was crossing Mississippi River, he looked out of the window and saw the muddy river flowing and contemplated/wondered what this river meant to the Negro people whose history is linked to this river. The river is also associated with Abraham Lincoln's decision to emancipate slavery. The speaker tells us that he has known rivers and that his soul has come to be as deep as a river. He is the representative of the ancient races. He used to go swimming in the Euphrates River when human civilization had just begun. He lived near the Congo River in central Africa. He helped to build the pyramids in Egypt almost four thousand years ago. He heard the Mississippi River sing when President Abraham Lincoln took a boat ride down to New Orleans. He tells us again that he has known lots of ancient, dusky rivers.
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