E38 Suicide Note and Sick Room by Langston Hughes

Description: 
An immersive reading of two poems, ‘Suicide’s Note’ and ‘Sick Room,’ by  Langston Hughes with reflection on suicide, locations of illness and the personification of death.

Website:
https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ 

Work:

Suicide’s Note
By Langston Hughes

The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.


Sick Room
By Langston Hughes

How quiet
It is in this sick room
Where on the bed
A silent woman lies between two lovers—
Life and Death,
And all three covered with a sheet of pain.

References:

The Weary Blues: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Weary_Blues 

Langston Hughes: https://poets.org/poet/langston-hughes 

Harkup, K. (2020). Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, stabbings and Broken hearts.

Novotney, A. (2020, March 24). The risks of social isolation. Monitor on Psychology, 50(5). https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/05/ce-corner-isolation