Personal Journey Of African Americans

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My overall impression of the poem is that the speaker is comparing his personal journey to that of the journey of Black men since the dawn of time. The speaker mentions several rivers that are well known in the Middle East and Africa and then the Mississippi. The speaker seems to me to be linking the experiences of African Americans to rivers, by location and the nature of these rivers, which have flowed since before history was recorded and will continue to flow.

In the second stanza, ” I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.” The speaker seems to me to be implying that he, the speaker seems to be a man to me, has been on earth before human history and is ancient. “My soul has grown

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