The Speaker Of The River By Langston Hughes

The speaker of the poem is by the author Langston Hughes himself. This is a lyric poem because it expresses Langston’s emotions towards the river. By identifying the speaker, it allows the reader to understand that the speaker is using the river as a metaphor for representing life.
In this poem, the speaker and the author are the same.
The subject of the poem is the slavery, and the emotions the speaker expressed is happiness and love because of civilization.
In the poem, the poet used imagery as a technical means when he used words like muddy, golden, and dusty because it provided a visual image for the readers. In addition, beginning in line 2 when it says, “I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in