 | Langston Hughes - 2001 - 952 páginas
...to the Negro people and the world the beaut}' within themselves. I once tried to say this in a poem: I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the...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... | |
 | Robert E. Washington - 2001 - 388 páginas
...United States receding in the background, he wrote his first major poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers: I've known rivers; I've known rivers ancient as the...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... | |
 | Langston Hughes - 2001 - 290 páginas
...summer evening, there might not have been "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" written before I was twenty: I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the...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... | |
 | Chester J. Fontenot, Mary Alice Morgan - 2001 - 220 páginas
...Rivers," found in Selected Poems. My presentation begins with a reading of this poem in its entirety. I've known rivers: I've known Rivers ancient as the...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... | |
 | Venetria K. Patton, Maureen Honey - 2001 - 678 páginas
...New York. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was recited at his funeral service. The Negro Speaks of Rivers I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the...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... | |
 | M. K. Fullen - 2002 - 68 páginas
...teachings of Zora Neale Hurston. CHAPTER III Langston Hughes 1902 ~ 1967 The Negro Speaks of Rivers I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the...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... | |
 | Arnold Rampersad - 2002 - 568 páginas
...first appearance in an adult magazine, the Crisis had published his poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers": I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the...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... | |
 | Thomas F. Defrantz - 2002 - 382 páginas
...Negro, presumed to be without history and culture, was now ostentatiously proclaiming that he knew rivers "ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human vein." Primus's dance offers a counterhegemonic narrative of identity by placing the Negro on the grand... | |
 | Deborah Smith Douglas - 2003 - 132 páginas
...African-American poet Langston Hughes spoke of this transforming dynamic at the very heart of who we are: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than...blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I would like to think that my soul has — once and for all — "grown deep like the rivers,"... | |
 | David James - 2003 - 268 páginas
...F. 60. Ibid. Eric Gordon Fortifying Community: African American History and Culture in Leimert Park I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the...older than the Flow of human blood in human veins. — Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921) "The Concepts We Hold in Our Minds" The poet... | |
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Rivers 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... 
