Situational Irony In Life Is Fine By Langston Hughes

"Life is Fine", by Langston Hughes, is a poem written to explain the overall feelings of the poet during his lifetime. the sound devices and literary terms in the poem describe the feeling and put you into the authors shoes. The message of the poem is to tell you that suicide is never the answer. Langston Hughes uses situational irony and rhyme in the poem to create a wonderful and disastrous poem. Situational irony is used in the poem to explain how the author wants to do something, but then does the opposite. When Hughes talks about jumping off a building, he does not, because he senses tell him that he can't do it. When Hughes talks about drowning himself, he thinks about how cold the water is, and his first response is to get out