Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Rivers
In Langston Hughes poem “The Negro speaks of River” He is basically building up the African American civilization and their impact on history in the different times and places they establish their civilization just in the first line “I’ve known rivers ancient and older than the flow of human blood in human veins” This line also is a call for equality because he is making a point that he his ancestors been on this world just as long as the Caucasians. Hughes then point out that his soul is as deep as the rivers drawing a comparison that the African American race has been through so much hardship and still have manage to make a major impact in society just like a river carving its way through hills and mountains making itself wider and stronger to become a bigger part of the world. Langston decided to used rivers become rivers played a major role in the upcoming of civilizations because everything needed water for survival
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I agree with what cadet Haywood says about the rivers, because it is very true that most societies are created around rivers for what they offer. And with Langston Hughes using the rivers as a basis of African American life, it can connect with the people and it is easier to relate to the hardships and the revelations that African Americans had to go through and how they fought their way up the ladder of better human life within a society that tried to destroy their very being.
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