What Is The Mood Of The Poem 'Sunset Coney Island'?

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“Sunset Coney Island” is a poem by Langston Hughes that depicts the real ugliness of the world. When people think of sunsets they think of pretty colors, happy endings, and nice times. In this poem however, the sun is being described from a normal person at a old broken down theme park. The title “Sunset Coney Island” is the name The similes add ways to actually envision the poem. One simile is “The sun, Like the red yolk of a rotten egg”(Line 2-3). The poem compares the beautiful sunset to the red yolk of a rotten egg. It is saying how not everything in life is as pretty as people make it out to be. Another simile is “While life to him/ Is like a sick tomato/ In a garbage can”(Lines 11-13). This simile is saying that the character compares