Friday, September 12, 2003

Suicide's Note Comments

Rating: 4.1

The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
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Langston Hughes
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Ena nan 10 November 2024

It's really short, but it tells a lot about what the short poem is about.

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Loyd C Taylor Sr 06 June 2024

Well done, poet friend!

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Sara Adams Ann 18 April 2024

I like how it talks about suicide cause I have felt like that before.

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Rebecca Beatty 10 April 2024

Interesting that even if he had not named this creation suicide, it would still be seen as suicide.

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camila! 17 March 2024

some people understand but some don't.

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iluzcatz! 17 March 2024

i under stand tbh.

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Ena nan 10 November 2024

I understand, it's sad but honestly really relatable

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Alora Birdwhistle 04 October 2023

This reminds me of how much i wanted to die as a child.....

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Hebert Logerie 03 September 2023

About Langston Hughes' Suicide Note My intention is not to offer an exegesis We can all remember the kiss of Judas Which of course was a death sentence The twelve words of Langston Hughes remind me...Poet Hebert Logerie

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James Timothy Jarrett 16 April 2023

Very succint. Well done

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Kara W 03 April 2023

Short but meaningful.

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Rhonda Cotsell 06 January 2023

Shattering.

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A.R. Tempest 03 January 2023

This is probably the best thing I've read from him. The speaker describes the river as 'calm', but rivers move, they're chaotic and drifting. This description reveals that the chaos of the river is so much less than the chaos the speaker lives in already.

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isaac de snuts 17 October 2022

i comitid a genicide today😂

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Alain Joubert 14 October 2022

I could be an invite to a swim not necessarily to suicide

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Marlena Wilke 13 October 2022

A kiss my dear, that is all.

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ne ba 13 October 2022

elp i m unda de wata

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ne ba 13 October 2022

help i am drowning under the water

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Alain Joubert 14 October 2022

Come back, we have much to accomplish

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abby 04 August 2022

hi

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Reese North 10 June 2022

A very powerful piece that punches a hole in my heart. The strength is it's brevity so much said and done in so few words.

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ur mom 21 March 2022

turns out he was cheating on me with the river

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dri 15 September 2022

LOLOLOLOL

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morgan 17 January 2022

beautiful

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