Langston+Hughes

Life Is Fine

Summary The poem **Life Is Fine**, is a big metaphor for when life gets rough, keep on going even through the tough times. Langston **Huges** uses two examples of how people think about dying, but decide to live in his poem. When I read this poem I hear a man with his problems at the river and his apartment building. In both incidents the man thinks about dying, but at the end he decides not **too**.

"Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged. sweet baby, If you **gona** see me die."
 * Corralation**

To me, this **stanza's** about whatever happens through the rough times, we will pull through and still keep on going. This is my favorite stanza in the poem. I feel that every new married couple should read this poem because the of the high divorce rates in today's society.

"But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!" "But it was High up there! It was High!"

These two lines are not side by side, but they are related. These two lines are after the **stanza's** about how the might die. These two lines tells his reasoning for not killing himself. In the **stazas** before these lines the man talks about how he was tempted but was not once he was ready **too**.

Refection At first, I did not know what the poem was about, but after really looking at I found the true meaning of the poem. Keep on going even through the tough times and to never give up. I have read other poems where they have one big metaphor through out the poem. I find those poems to be my favorite kind. This poem is excellent in everyway.