Another poetic device in “Life is fine” is simile. The speaker’s comparison of life being “fine as wine” in the third refrain evokes the speaker’s transformation from a suicidal weakling who appears in the opening of the poem to such an optimistic man at in the end. Moreover, language use in this poem is also noticeable since “gonna”, an example of colloquial English language, is present in the last line of the sixth stanza. By including this specific language, Hughes aims to make his piece of work more engaging to the audience, particularly the Black American community who is known to have created this distinguished language.