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Langston Hughes starts this poem off with a very strong statement: “I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.� This is telling you that he has been around along time and has seen many things. He also seemed to be comparing the flow of the river of that with the blood flowing throughout the human body’s veins. In some way he is trying to get you to make the connection between river’s and blood maybe trying to state that his veins are old like the rivers. Hughes also uses repetition in this poem to stick it in your head. He uses “My soul has grown deep like the rivers� to imprint your mind that the poem is about rivers and how he is comparing himself to them. This caught my attention because it made it easier to read and it helped me understand that he has comparing himself with the rivers. When you read this poem you get a dusky setting from it. Hughes never really talks about a bright shinning day......

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