Download The Negro Speaks Of Rivers Poem Pics. I looked upon the nile and raised the. Langston hughes, the negro speaks of rivers from the collected works of langston hughes.
.langston hughes wrote the negro speaks of rivers in 1920 and published it in january 1921 in crisis magazine, a publication of the national association for the advancement of colored people.
The title of this piece immediately comes into play with the first person narrator. It is hughes's first acclaimed poem and is a panegyric to people of black african origin throughout. Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. In his early writing, including the negro speaks of rivers, hughes was inspired by american poet carl sandburg.45:169.