Choose a specific work from our readings. You may also choose another work from our text with instructor approval.

Discuss the literary work as a product of particular historical, political, social, or intellectual concerns of the era in which it was produced. You may also discuss how the work may have challenged those concerns.

You will need to do some research for this essay and include at least one legitimate outside source for this information.

Use the Wor-Wic databases to find this source. You may also use a valid web-site that may be mentioned within the databases. Avoid using non-scholarly sources like Shmoop, Grade Saver, and Wikipedia.
The majority of your essay will involve a close reading of the text and a discussion of the ideas in that text. Show how these ideas relate to the cultural concerns and problems of American society of that era.
Include a Works Cited page listing the literary work and any outside sources used and cited in the essay.

Hughes’s poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, is piece of work