Compare and contrast Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” with Huck Finn’s and/or Jim’s view of the Mississippi River.

Read these additional Dickinson poems: “Im nobody who are you? (Links to an external site.)” (288) and “I taste a liquor never brewed (Links to an external site.)” (214). “Im nobody who are you? (Links to an external site.)” (288) is an invitation to loneliness. How does this poem or “I taste a liquor never brewed (Links to an external site.)” (214) invite the reader into the a kind of shared strangeness? Do you feel separated or connected by the language? Using these questions as a guide, perform a detailed explication – modeled on the Robin Ekiss essay analyzing “I started Early — Took the Dog –“. Include the terms covered in the Portable Guide chapter 6, “Writing about Poetry.” Be sure to quote evidence from the poems

2. Compare and contrast Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” with Huck Finn’s and/or Jim’s view of the Mississippi River. How does each speaker characterize or present their experience of the river, or rivers? What do these rivers end up symbolizing for each speaker? Is the Mississippi River different for Huck than for Jim? Use these questions to spark or guide your analysis, though don’t let them constrain your own analytical direction.

3. Compare and contrast Walt Whitman’s view of America as represented in “Song of Myself” to Langston Hughes’ “I, Too.” Are these visions complementary, or mutually exclusive? How do Whitman’s claims in section 33, reflected in the lines “I am the man, I suffered, I was there,” and his further claims that–

I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs,

Hell and despair are upon me, crack and again crack the marksmen,

I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinnd with the ooze of my skin,

I fall on the weeds and stones,

The riders spur their unwilling horses, haul close,

Taunt my dizzy ears and beat me violently over the head with whip-stocks.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments,

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person,

My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

–compare the the quieter claims of Hughes’s speaker? Do Whitman’s claims to self-determination contradict his sympathies for the experience of African-Americans and other minorities for whom the barriers to self-determination are much higher than they are for a single white male?

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