Reflection #7 : "Negro Power"

This last week was a very interesting because for the first time I understood a poem the first time I read it, jajaja. Obviously I’m talking about the poet Langston Hughes whose poems not only are very interesting and curious but very easy to interpret and understand. This man writes about Afro American life on United States. The first one we read on class was “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” which is tells us, by descriptions and metaphors, the truth about black people’s life that trough the history they were used as slaves, mistreated and considered inferior to other races. Trough the poem he says he had known rivers, and he refers that rivers, in the history, has been used to force black peoples to extract gold and other valuable things that usually cost their life and the black blood spread through the rivers becomes their veins, the black peoples veins. Also he says “My soul has grown deep like the rivers” and he refers that he also has been mistreated and pushed away and that motivates him to reinforce his soul to fight for his rights and freedom and to flow like water in a river.
Another poem and surely the most I liked is “I, too”. In this poem he express that he is also an American, and part of the civilization. But peoples judge him because of his color and had been rejected because of his ethnic origin. He is the darker brother and he said “They send me to eat in the kitchen” and the word “They” refers to white peoples who are constantly trying to intimidate black peoples in order to make them feel inferior. But the poet also says that he laugh because he eat well and that one day nobody will treat him like that referring that he has faith that things will change and be more fair.