_The+Negro+Speaks+of+Rivers_+poem+and+summary

I've known rivers:

I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the

flow of human blood in human veins.

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.

I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln

went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy

bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

__**Summary**__ The speaker, which he is black, talks about how he has seen so many rivers. In reality is not that he has actually seen the rivers but if we were to look back in history, Africans have been able to seen all of the rivers that were mention in the poem. The poem talks about how far the Africans have come in the world and that they can still more rivers now. The poem also talks about how the rivers is our blood that runs through our veins and he also relates it to the human soul. This emphasizes how our soul's have become "deep like the rivers."