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Langston Hughes
Title: Langston Hughes
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 717 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Langston Hughes
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“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes is an amazing epic poem
showing the depth of a person’s soul. It actually gave me the chills while reading it. It is
an intimate and personal piece. When I looked up the history of Hughes I felt even more
inspired. He was an African American man who was born in Mississippi in 1902. He
wrote this poem while he was a …showed first 75 words of 717 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 717 total…it ran. Hughes goes on and on about the rivers
of the world and how they are so vast and deep. Hughes is indirectly expressing how deep
and vast his soul has become throughout his life, a life filled with turmoil and suffering,
even though he probably has not been able to travel the world, as the rivers do.
Associating his soul to the rivers is like letting his soul flow free, like the rivers.
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