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In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," for whom do the first-person pronouns "I" and "my" stand?

A.
the speaker and all the people of the speaker's race

B.
all people who live near the rivers mentioned in the poem

C.
the speaker and all the rivers the speaker mentions

D.

all people who helped to build all the great civilizations of the past

Question

@jessmitz 

In "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," for whom do the first-person pronouns "I" and "my" stand?
  
 
 

 
 

  

  A. 
  the speaker and all the people of the speaker's race   
   

 
 

  

  B. 
  all people who live near the rivers mentioned in the poem   
   

 
 

  

  C. 
  the speaker and all the rivers the speaker mentions   
   

 
 

  

  D. 
 
all people who helped to build all the great civilizations of the past

anonymous · Answer

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173693

anonymous · Answer

A