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…showed last 75 words of 710 total…it ran. Hughes goes on and on about the rivers of the world and how they are so vast and deep. Hughes is indirectly expressing how deep and vast his soul has become throughout his life, a life filled with turmoil and suffering, even though he probably has not been able to travel the world, as the rivers do. Associating his soul to the rivers is like letting his soul flow free, like the rivers.