Questions

1.(a) What Do you associate with the places Hughes describes in "the Negro Speaks of Rivers"? (b) What places do you associate with your culture or your ancestry? answer1

2.(a) In "the Negro Apeaks of Rivers" what has happened to the speaker's soul? (b) Based on lines 3 and 10, what do you think is the theme of this poem? answer2

3.(a) Identify four rivers the speaker names in "the Negro Apeaks of Rivers"? (b) What does the age of rivers imply about people of African ancestry? answer3

4. In what respects can the human race as a whole be compared? answer4

5.(a) To what two images does the speaker compare Ardella? (b) What is unsual about these comparasion? (c) What is the speaker's feeling towards Ardella? answer5

6. Is hughes's comparison in "Ardella" effective? Why or why not? answer6

7.(a) Why do love poems often compare people to nature? (b) What is the efdfect of such comparisons? answer7