# Sea Calm explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by Langston Hughes.

## What happens

A brief meditation on the unnerving stillness of the sea, suggesting that such unnatural calm portends hidden danger.

## Themes in this chapter

### Nature and the Elements

The sea's unnatural stillness evokes a sense of foreboding, highlighting nature's power and mystery.

## Key lines

> How still, How strangely still The water is today.

The water is eerily calm today.

_The repetition emphasizes the unsettling quiet._

> It is not good For water To be so still that way.

Such stillness in water is ominous.

_The speaker warns that this calm may be deceptive._

## Links

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