First published in The Cr
First published in The Crisis in 1921, a biographer of this poem's author relates that this poem was written in nearly final form on a train ride from Illinois to Missouri. The speaker describes his awareness of title entities "older than the flow of human blood in human veins," stating that he heard one "singing" when "Abe Lincoln/went down to New Orleans." Near another the speaker "built [his] hut," while near another he "raised the pyramids." Citing the Euphrates, Congo, Nile, and Mississippi, FTP what is this poem by Langston Hughes in which the speaker says his "soul has grown deep like" the title waterways?
First published in The Crisis in 1921, a biographer of this poem's author relates that this poem was written in nearly final form on a train ride from Illinois to Missouri.
“The {Negro Speaks of Rivers}”