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This 6 page paper discusses the works of Langston Hughes as he portrays and explains the Black Experience in America. Specific poems analyzed are: The Negro sings of Rivers, I, Too, Sing America, and Harlem: A dream deferred. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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society that did not seem to want to acknowledge his existence. This experience was aptly caught and portrayed by Langston Hughes in his many of his poems. Of his works,
The Negro Speaks of Rivers, I too Sing America, and Harlem: A Dream Deferred, speak to Hughs perception of being black in America. In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" the
narrator speaks in an omniscient voice and addresses all of mankind. It is as if a disembodied spirit had returned to impart some sort of observed wisdom. The first lines
of the poem example the black mans plight. Oppressed peoples, it seems to be saying, all share a similar understanding of sorrow and hope(Dawahare 25). The river, then, may symbolize
lifes journey. Each river that is mentioned is from some point in history of mankind where some sort of oppression was present, and no race is mentioned. In fact, it
is clear that oppression knows no color boundaries, only limits of time and century. "I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln / went down to New Orleans,"
Hughes finally states(Hughes). Here, he has mentioned a name along with the name of the water source. In the end, the black experience that he is discussing in
this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is stating that slavery enslaves
everyone, not just the slave(Filatova 101). This is because all of mankind are brothers; they all hail from the same source. The Negro sings of Rivers, and understands them,
but the black man does not have the corner on suffering. Others have suffered as much, as history will testify, and yet, the strong survive to live another century. Another
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