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A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts Langston Hughes’ poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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backgrounds, aiming at different themes and ideals within the poetry they are so well known for. But, at the same time they are also clearly poets who speak of searching
for a sense of identity. In Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers and Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock the narrators essentially seem to ask the question "why
cant I be who I am supposed to be?" The following paper examines this theme in both poems, discussing the poems and poets separately, and then discusses the two together.
Hughes Langston Hughes was essentially a man who serves as the epitome of the black poet, a man who experienced the
poverty and racism in the United States before the Civil Rights Movement. As such his voice is unique and it was a voice that spoke for his people in many
ways. This particular poem, which is considered to be one of his greatest works, was published while he resided in New York (The Negro Speaks of Rivers). He dedicated this
particular poem to "W.E.B. DuBois, in the Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)" (The Negro Speaks of Rivers). It is such a
powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (African American Odyssey).
The poem itself is relatively short and is presented in its entirety because of this: "Ive known rivers/ Ive 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 bathe in the Euphrates when dawns were young/ I built my hut near
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