Langston Hughes reads The Negro Speaks of Rivers
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- The Negro Speaks of Rivers by LANGSTON HUGHES
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.
Original Recording: www.poets.org/v...
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What a treasure, that we have Langston Hughes' own voice still.
I was just thinking this. I am so glad my children will be able to hear his poetry in his own voice. ❤
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Well spoken too the old movies always made us seem so uneducated ,look how smart he sounds when he is not reading a racist script .💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾hate he they would make us look
What a beautiful man with beautiful words.
When he speaks he sounds very ordinary, but when he recites he becomes the great poet. Magnificent!
My soul has grown deep like the rivers ❤❤❤wow. Sometimes I think about rivers and I think how they've witnessed it all. The same river bed my ancestors my ancestors stepped in when young and wanted a swim, is the same riverbed that was there before they were born, is the same river bed that will be there for my great grandkids. Rivers have borne silent witness to the start of slavery, the same water from the rains, down the mountains into the rivers, into the oceans, the oceans that carried slaves on ships; they've borne witness to colonialism and the fight for freedom, the same rivers the ancestors had to shower in as they survived fighting for freedom in the forests; the same rivers slaves were baptized in and from which sprung soul giving negro spirituals; the same rivers that helped the slaves escape by cutting off the scent-tracing dogs set upon them by the "massas". Indeed, the story of black people cannot be told without being mentioned in the same breadth with rivers. The Rivers, the silent witness , cheerleader and sometimes grave to the trials and triumphs of the negro. ❤ Thank you for posting this poem.
I read this poem for the first time in 3rd grade. And I instantly feel in love with it. A very short poem; however, those few lines filled my heart with the richness and greatness of my people!
Reading this poem as a child, I never thought that it would be the dawn of defining my writing.
Mine too
really?? wow! i am sharing this poem with my 5th graders. i would love to hear more about this if you see this & Can share.
This is the poem. That poem. The poem that got me to respect all poetry and literature but especially Langston Hughes. Amazing man.
Just listening to him has given me new insights into this wonderful poem. To think, he wrote this just out of high school. Amazing.
He was a genius, so young and so wise. If he wrote only this poem in his life it would be perfect.
Indeed.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers 😩
Its really fortunate thing listening Langton hues own voice.
Feb.1: Happy birthday Poet-author Langston Hughes; Harlem Renaissance (1902-1967) Thank you and God bless. Thanks for the upload, Robert Ricardo Reese. Blessings
I love this poem, brings back amazing memories from secondary school. Sitting in Literature class, my teacher reading this out. It went from just Literature to history in seconds, but this poem, it's just, honestly I love it.
Same. I heard this poem in class too. It moved me then, and still.
Thanks so much for sharing this original recording of Langston Hughes, himself! I love the detail of his watching out the train window and writing on the back of a letter. His short story "One Christmas Eve" is one of my three favorites: A Christmas Carol ~ Charles Dickens, The Homecoming ~ Earl Hamner, One Christmas Eve ~ Langston Hughes, The Gift of the Magi ~ O. Henry. ❤️✨🎄
The way he reads The Negro speaks of river marvelous, the intensity in delivery could understand his agony and Ado he had💯💯
One of my absolute favorites. This is wonderful.
1:40 when he starts reading the poem
thx
But his introduction is not to be missed. He explains his whole reason for writing the poem.
This is magnificent, awesome. Langston Hughes is my all time favourite poet, over and above Keats! It is so exciting to hear the man himself recite his most famous poem. A fascinating and informative introduction as well. Again, a magnificent recording, one that stands out above so many.❤
One of my favorites.
Mine too!
Stunning, even today!
ESPECIALLY today. xx
So beautiful and HISTORICAL..Today we do not want to share history but destroy it...Mr. Hughes understood that history is/was extremely important. Learn from it so we may do better in the future....
Langston Hughes wrote one of favorite novels. Although it was fiction, it was based on real life in Chicago. The novel is “Knock On Any Door.” It was also made into a movie starring John Derek.
Learning more about the influence of Langston Hughes on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Hughes time in Paris sparked transcontinental beauty in Music, Literature and Art. Jessie B Simple provides insight into Harlem, and Harlem's everyday folk life. Lastly, a quote from I've Known Rivers adorn the entrance to the Schomburg Library in NY.
thank you for citing the original recording! this is great.
I adore this man
Me too
Love you on the real ❤😍 Never give up and beee u to the fullest
This is like a story of our DNA. E1b1a came from near the Euphrates and ended up here. This touches the soul.
Beautiful poem🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽❤️❤️😇
Thanks for posting!!!!
I hope this generation get to understand what this means bkas it is something they will never go through in life or any other life
One of my favorites ❤
This is what dreams are made of!😌📚😍
I love this💜
So happy to run across this reading. Awesome.
Oh! Steph's video brought me here
this is great for students, thank you!!
Much respect
Hi, can you tell me the source of the interview with Langston Hughes? I would like to reference it in my paper. Thank you
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Great short poems edited by Paul Negri book
Well spoken too the old movies always made us seem so uneducated ,look how smart he sounds when he is not reading a racist script .💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾hate he they would make us look
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers"
Support the young who knows the old and who Will respect what they live on 1000% coo doe's 😂 (fu yeaaahhhh))))
When did Hughes record this?
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Wow!
beautiful
Can anyone tell me the Imagery/Symbolism in this poem?
The rivers are ancient. They were here before us and they will outlive us all. They have seen much. As we get older we will see many things. Our souls will change. They will be altered by what we see. They will become as powerful, thoughtful yet silent... As the rivers.
do we know what year is the recording?
i think 1959
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He and Maya Angelou pronounce "poem" the same😊
Gary Bartz brought me here
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HI MR COATOAM.
ancient dusty rivers.
*dusky
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0:03
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what year is this, please? thanks for posting.
1959
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At the end of the day you are who??? That matter's
Langsot hughes
Why was Lincoln so surprised there was slavery up north too I just don't get it
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1:42
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1:40