How Does Langston Hughes Use Situational Irony In Life Is Fine

Famous African American writer Langston Hughes, wrote “Life is Fine” to send a message through this poem. The message of this poem is, no matter what you’re going through you persevere. You can get through it, and if you keep trying you can get through it. Life will be fine. In the poem “Life is Fine” there are multiple poetic devices, but in my opinion the two main poetic devices that are being used are situational irony and verbal irony.This poem uses situational irony in stanza one and stanza two. When the character says “i jumped in and sank” at this point the reader would believe that he died, but he did not. An example of verbal irony in this poem is when the character said he was going to kill himself but he ended up living through