Question

Which element of modernist poetry is evident in this excerpt from "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes?

Answer 1

The elementof modernist poetry that is reflected in the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," by Langston Hughes is stylistic experimentation and disrupted syntax.

Modernist poems do not follow any type of established meter or rhyme scheme; rather, they play with syntax and scheme, creating new, interesting ones.

Answer 2

I believe that the element of modernist poetry that is evident in this excerpt from "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes is the poem uses nontraditional syntax and rhyme scheme.