The Negro Speaks of Rivers

[toretsblaby]

Thank u for uploading

[marco58amco]

Thanks Mjlauria for that beautiful video. I first read a Hughes poem when I was in college (Theme for English B) and I loved it. Now I'm preparing a lesson about this poem and I'm certainly going to show this video to my students. LOVE, LIVE, LEARN 'n' LAUGH. MAC (from Brazil)

[mshallbms]

Thanks! Using this in my classes tomorrow.

[VDubb08]

This great I think that all afro americans should read this , and they will find answers to quite a few questions

[MccKateness]

Many thanks for posting this audio. Great to use as a revision tool =)

[YetiDeti]

where is the rhyme? 

[mandiine69]

Helo I'm french and i have some question on this video. But I dont understand all his speaking. could you wrote all the things that he said ?? please ?

[vnsr5]

This explanation is way useful :) Thanx for the upload, i love you right now!! LOL jk bout that ''i love you'' but thanx

[limeJuiced]

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[kylfields]

rivers, rivers every where.

[Aggeasy]

I highly recommend Gary Bartz - I've Known Rivers , it's on spotify. He turned this poem into a song , and it's a must if your into african and jazz style. It's simply beautiful.

[Putingrad]

Rivers.

[Dragonmanna]

When and where was this reading done?

[ashleyjkent]

Hi, someone has made this into a song and may have dedicated it to Marian Anderson. I am singing this at the University of South Carolina. If you could find a recording of someone singing this, that would be great.

[Super8StrikesBack]

Such a beautiful soul..

[pearljammingchristy]

This is wonderful! I'm definitely using this in class tomorrow. My students expect a video with every poem we study. This is one of the best -- they'll love it! It'll make understanding the poem much easier for them. THANKS FOR POSTING!

[mjlauria]

Hi Christy,

I'm glad you like it. Thanks for letting me know you can use this for your class. :-)

[mandiine69]

hello could you written all the things that he said in this video. I am french and I dont understant. and i have some question on this video.

[mistacramer]

@mandiine69

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.

[mistacramer]

@mistacramer

(Continued)

I've known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

[guzsaj]

@mandiine69 he explained how he wrote this poem when he was travelling to Mexico to visit his father and while he did he passed the river Mississippi and started to think about what it might have meant to negro slaves, about the role it played in the black history. He noted his poem on the back of his father's letter, which is a bit ironic since his father didn't want him to become a writer. (:

[flingit55]

i love his voice.

[ThatsBulsh]

Yeah me too :P

[miriamnz]

Thank you so much for posting this!  It's so wonderful to hear Hughes's own description and reading of this piece. Such a haunting poem - it has always been one of my favourites.

[bibs5]

absolutely beautiful