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 * Life is Fine ||||  ||
 * by Langston Hughes ||
 * I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried! If that water hadn't a-been so cold I might've sunk and died. //But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!// I took the elevator Sixteen floors above the ground. I thought about my baby And thought I would jump down. I stood there and I hollered! I stood there and I cried! If it hadn't a-been so high I might've jumped and died. //But it was High up there! It was high!// So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die. //Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!// ||
 * I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried! If that water hadn't a-been so cold I might've sunk and died. //But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!// I took the elevator Sixteen floors above the ground. I thought about my baby And thought I would jump down. I stood there and I hollered! I stood there and I cried! If it hadn't a-been so high I might've jumped and died. //But it was High up there! It was high!// So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die. //Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!// ||

These two art peices from the Harlem Reniassance are similar I feel as they both contain a scholarly note in them. The first which is //Life is Fine,// by Langston Hughes discusses an inability to think while the pose in the second which is //Self-portrait,// by Jacob Lawrence portrays a look similar to that of a philosopher. I feel that these works of are relate to the Harlem Reniassance because of the Harlem Reniassance being an intellectual movement of the African-American race to major cities in the North. I also feel that these works are similar due to joy represented in the peices eminate happiness, the poem's sing-song rhythm is joyful despite the fact that it discusses hopelessness and suicide, while the pictures smile also shows joy. These to pictures symbolize the Harlem Reniassance because they imortalize they intellectual movement that shaped modern art that we see today.