Langston Hughes

Triple P’s Extra Credit “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 …

…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.