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ok please help me out i did this already but im preety sure i got it all wrong:
The negro speaks of Rivers
-Langston Hughes
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of hman blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euprates when dawns were young,
I build my hut near the congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
down to New oreans, and i've seen its muddy bosson
turn all golden in the sunset.
Ive known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Ansewr these questions please:
When langston hughes uses the pronoun I does he refer to himself or all black people?
Why does he draw our attention the the congo, nile, and euprates rivers?
How would you interpret the lines "my soul has grown deep like the rivers"?
Why does he repeat lines?
What are the similies?
What gives the poem its mood and feeling?
What adjetives does langston huges use?
What does the pharse "rivers.. older than the flow of human blood in veins" mean to you?
Dream Variation
-Langston Hughes
To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Darlk like me-
That is my dream!
To fling my arms wide
in the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done
Rest at pale evening....
A tall, slim tree....
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.
Answer these question on that poem please:
Is the writer happy?
Which phrases support ur last answer?
Why do you feel he is proud?
What are the comparasion(s) made in the first stanza?
Explain how he feels about night?
What words give this poem a feeling of action?
Give the number of the lines that rhyme.
What is a variation? Is it a good choice to use in this title?
To what does he compare his skin?
Why do you think the phrase "to fling my arms wide" is an effective way to begin each stanza?
The negro speaks of Rivers
-Langston Hughes
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of hman blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euprates when dawns were young,
I build my hut near the congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
down to New oreans, and i've seen its muddy bosson
turn all golden in the sunset.
Ive known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Ansewr these questions please:
When langston hughes uses the pronoun I does he refer to himself or all black people?
Why does he draw our attention the the congo, nile, and euprates rivers?
How would you interpret the lines "my soul has grown deep like the rivers"?
Why does he repeat lines?
What are the similies?
What gives the poem its mood and feeling?
What adjetives does langston huges use?
What does the pharse "rivers.. older than the flow of human blood in veins" mean to you?
Dream Variation
-Langston Hughes
To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Darlk like me-
That is my dream!
To fling my arms wide
in the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done
Rest at pale evening....
A tall, slim tree....
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.
Answer these question on that poem please:
Is the writer happy?
Which phrases support ur last answer?
Why do you feel he is proud?
What are the comparasion(s) made in the first stanza?
Explain how he feels about night?
What words give this poem a feeling of action?
Give the number of the lines that rhyme.
What is a variation? Is it a good choice to use in this title?
To what does he compare his skin?
Why do you think the phrase "to fling my arms wide" is an effective way to begin each stanza?