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I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Copyright Credit: Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" from The Collected Works of Langston Hughes.
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One of the key poems of a literary movement called the "Harlem Renaissance," "The Negro Speaks of River" traces black history from the beginning of human civilization to the present, encompassing both triumphs (like the construction of the Egyptian pyramids) and horrors (like American slavery).
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” is an important early poem by Langston Hughes, one of the key figures in the Harlem Renaissance. Written when Hughes was just 17, this short poem marked the beginning of his long and influential career.
‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ is about a man who has seen the great ages of the world alongside the banks of the most important rivers. Written by Langston Hughes at the age of seventeen, it is often cited as his most famous poem.
In 1920, at the tender age of 17, Langston Hughes set out on a train journey from Cleveland, Ohio to visit his estranged father in Mexico City. As the train crossed the Mississippi River, Hughes felt the urge to write. He pulled out an envelope, and on the back of it he penned the poem we know as “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”. When the poem ...
Langston Hughes in 1919 or 1920 "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote the poem when he was 17 years old and was crossing the Mississippi River on the way to visit his father in Mexico.
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
