The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
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I like how it talks about suicide cause I have felt like that before.
Interesting that even if he had not named this creation suicide, it would still be seen as suicide.
This reminds me of how much i wanted to die as a child.....
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
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.
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.
It's really short, but it tells a lot about what the short poem is about.