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Poet: Langston Hughes (Langston Hughes Art)
Poem: The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
Poem of the Day:
Oct 19 2005
Comment 30 of 30, added on November 3rd, 2009 at 2:55 AM.
Hughes was an outstanding writer. The metaphors that he uses in this poem bring such a profound connection to the past. Its just so moving! Even though this poem was one of the first that written by him I think that it was the most inspiring in that it has the ablitiy to captivate and spark a readers imagination and emotions!
Monique Johnson from United States
Comment 29 of 30, added on April 7th, 2009 at 8:43 PM.
i think this poem is marvelous hughes does a fabulous job of showing how all people are connected by the speaker saying he bathed in the euphrates he is saying he was there in the beginning of time and this poem touches the heart because even though we may look different we are all the same people related by blood and by god ..
Shelley from United States
Comment 28 of 30, added on February 18th, 2009 at 6:36 PM.
I think the this poem is talking how how wfrican american's had to sturggle. I think he means that he was a slave and was on a slave boat and he had seen and have been acrossed many river's. It mean's thet he ha travled in many river's all over the world.i think it is about the places ha have been every since he was young untill he got older.
Tanisha from United States
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Hughes was an outstanding writer. The metaphors that he uses in this poem bring such a profound connection to the past. Its just so moving! Even though this poem was one of the first that written by him I think that it was the most inspiring in that it has the ablitiy to captivate and spark a readers imagination and emotions!
Monique Johnson from United States