Sea Calm by Langston Hughes?

I think anyone can find deeper meanings in things, if they look. Whether or not the author meant it in the way a reader reads it is always questionable, since we all see things differently. This could be as simple as a body of water being stiller than is usual or one can find a deeper meaning and correlation between water and people. In the Bible "sea" represents people. Since Langston hughes was a social poet one can certainly make this correlation. He could be saying that it is too quiet, sort of like the quiet before a storm. He is afraid that the people will snap and things get out of hand. It is not good....he forsees a storm or danger, something causing the stillness or something happening that will result in something bad. No good will come of this stewing or holding anger in for eventually it will explode.

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he just stated how the water was really still and it should be moving more then it is!! It was "strange" to him.

hope this answers the question...