USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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 me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

Detailed explanation-2: -"The Negro Speaks of Rivers” connects the soul and heritage of the African-American community to four great rivers in the Middle East, Africa, and America. In this way, the poem charts the journey of African and African-Americans and links this community to the birth of civilization.

Detailed explanation-3: -Blackness, Perseverance, and Cultural Identity. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” stretches from the earliest moments of human civilization all the way to American slavery, emphasizing that black people have both witnessed and participated in the key moments of human history.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indeed, our speaker is a world traveler, a man with a time machine. He has seen the birth of civilization, he has helped to build the pyramids, and he has seen the abolishment of slavery. There’s a music to the way our speaker speaks, as though he’s singing a song, saying a prayer, or leading a service.