USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hughes’ purpose was to express his pride of his african heritage through the language of first-person. Hughes’ use of repetition sets the poem to be more nostalgic later on: “I bathed, ” “I built, ” “I looked", “I heard". He uses this tone in order to appeal a similar nostalgic feeling in his african american readers.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Follow Up (SS) “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” is a poem most closely associated with the Harlem Rennaissance. Before the Renaissance, most African Americans lived in rural areas as sharecroppers. Most could not read or write and were under constant fear of violence.