Suicide’s Note
The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.
Langston Hughes
The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss.
Langston Hughes’s title tells us this is a final message, so the river’s request is not innocent. The speaker is in despair, but Hughes doesn’t describe pain directly. Instead, the river appears as a calm, cool face, almost like a person, and it asks the speaker for a kiss.
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