The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Hughes saids "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." Because the soul is likea life force that the body have as a steam of energy.The person who recognizes that his soul has grown deep recognizes his own identity. In this poem the river symbolizes the link of mankind as the blood in the body is believed to be linked because we are all children of God, and thus we have the common ancestry originating with Adam and Eve, the symbolical first parents. He linked with all humanity, all races, all creeds for all time through the depth of his own soul that we as children of God have been reborn in the blood of Christ which is the river.. This poem has a very strong message to me and the way he portray as a river.