I agree with the two previous posters and want to add a few more details about what there might be to appreciate in the Langston Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
The speaker is interesting. He (if he's a he?) is identified as "the negro" in the title of the poem, but he lives through centuries in a way that is impossible for humans. We may see details in the poem that suggest that he has been both a peasant (in a hut) and a pharoah. This last item is really interesting, I think. The speakers says: "I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it." He doesn't say "I made bricks and hauled them for some great leader." He seems to be the one occupying the vantage point and the high social position in this line.
The repetition of the word "human" is interesting, too, as is the choice of rivers. The Congo is in black Africa and the Mississippi can easily be connected (through slavery) to African American history, but the Euphrates doesn't fit if we see this poem as being about only black history. The Euphrates (along with the Tigris) is tied to the notion of very early human civilization. Maybe this poem is as much about blacks as it is about what humans in general share.
Finally, the colors in the poem are interesting. There's not just the implied "black" (from the word "negro"); there are also "muddy," "golden," and "dusky." These may refer to a range of skin tones as well as a range of ethnic groups.
The poem's enduring power, I think, lies in the way it can evoke so much. According to the autobiographical work The Big Sea, the poem was written when Hughes was a young man (maybe just turned 17), and it's ended being one of his best known pieces.
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