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What is the primary symbolic meaning behind the line 'I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins' from Hughes's poem?
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- 1The poet's personal nostalgia for his childhood upbringing near rivers
- 2A deep symbolic link establishing Black identity with ancient, global civilizations✓
- 3The depiction of the short-term economic suffering of African Americans
- 4A description of geographical beauty used strictly as a poetic device
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A deep symbolic link establishing Black identity with ancient, global civilizations
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