The interpretation that best fits the line "The Mississippi's 'muddy bosom' turned 'golden in the sunset'" is:
Though the Mississippi was tainted by its association with enslavement, it is eventually improved.
Question
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
What does it mean that the Mississippi's "muddy bosom" turned "golden in the sunset"?
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The Mississippi had a history of environmental contamination, but will be cleaned up eventually for other generations.
The Mississippi had a history of environmental contamination, but will be cleaned up eventually for other generations.
Though the Mississippi was tainted by its association with enslavement, it is eventually improved.
Though the Mississippi was tainted by its association with enslavement, it is eventually improved.
The speaker has seen many people die in the arms of the Mississippi River.
The speaker has seen many people die in the arms of the Mississippi River.
The speaker's descendants will move on to a different river in a different part of the world.
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