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1: The main idea of rainy day is that bad things happen in life sometimes, because thats just the way life is, but if you keep hope up, just remember that there is always better things to come.
2: The poet talks about the origin and historical existence of the African race. ... Also, the mood of the poem suggests that the speaker takes pride in his color, ancient culture, and race.
3: Bad things happen sometimes, but better things come.
4: POV in The Negro speaks of river, is FIRST PERSON. "I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins." - I and I've are used.
5: I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. This is figurative speech in "The Negro speaks of Rivers", the poet didn't see these things or do these things himself, he was stating that he has as if to say, "My heritage and race did this."
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