Journal for Hughes

The reading for today is the poetry of Langston Hughes. As a writer I love the style of Hughes in how he paints a picture. In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" it's easy to imagine the rivers of which eh speak. Also I find it clever how each of the rivers are a part of some area that is important in the history of the Negro. Three of the rivers are in Africa where a tribe may set its home along the banks of, because during this time in history water represented life. Then the Mississippi represents the line that separates the Jim Crow territory from the states that exhibit at least a slight higher form of equality.