At the same time, Hughes also criticizes humans’ superficiality through the disregard of life that the speaker shows in the poem. Hence, the mood created is realistic and gloomy at first but it becomes more positive as the speaker finally realizes that “life is fine”. The audience is taken through the changes of mood from extreme pessimism to optimism as the speaker desperately seeks for death at the beginning and then in the end becomes more conscious of how lucky he still is as he admits:“So since I’m still here livin’, I guess I will live on.”