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The Weary BluesThere are several literary devices at work in the first line of Langston Hughes' poem “The Weary Blues.” Like most of Hughes' work, this poem isn't trying to be difficult to understand. Hughes...
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The Weary BluesLangston Hughes' poem “The Weary Blues” is about the emotional anguish of an old blues singer/piano player. To look at why he uses the term “moan” in connection with the singer's piano, we...
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The Weary BluesFor writing to be viewed as poetry, it must include a variety of characteristics such as rhyming. Aware of poetic characteristics, Hughes uses a variety of literary devices in his poem "The Weary...
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The Weary BluesIn Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues," the speaker describes a blues singer who sings a song about how he "Ain’t got nobody in all this world, / Ain’t got nobody but ma self." While the...
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The Weary Blueswhat is the overall mood and tone, and how does the language of the poem specifically create this...Screw You
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The Weary BluesLangston Hughes was an African-American poet who played an important role in the Harlem Renaissance. Much of Hughes' poetry is about the difficulties faced by African-Americans in that time period...
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The Weary BluesLangston Hughes' poem “The Weary Blues” was written during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, in the 1920's. The Harlem Renaissance was an outburst of creative activity among...
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The Weary BluesDiction is the way an author or poet uses words. In “The Weary Blues” hues uses the words to create the impression of blues music. In the beginning of the poem, the rhythm seems to match the...
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The Weary BluesI think that Hughes employs a variety of images in the poem to show the complex nature of freedom. The piano player, in his own right, is shown to have freedom. Yet, this freedom is not entirely...
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The Weary BluesTone is the author’s attitude toward the subject. In the first verse, the speaker’s attitude is weary but persistent. In the second verse, the speaker becomes more dreary and the poem ends on...
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The Weary BluesLangston Hughes remembered the Harlem Renaissance as a time "when the Negro was in vogue." This period in which African American artists, literary and musical, claimed the attention of the world...
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The Weary BluesThe final line of Langston Hughes’s famous poem “The Weary Blues” describes the sleep of the bluesman depicted throughout the rest of the poem: He slept like a rock or a man that's dead....
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The Weary BluesThe narrative voice of "The Weary Blues" is in the first person. The narrator describes the events s/he experiences, but does not give us any detailed self-description. There are a few possible...
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The Weary BluesThis complex poem equates the narrator's personal experience with the blues singer's experience and universalizes their mutual experience to generalize to that of African Americans collectively....
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The Weary BluesThere are some clues in "The Weary Blues." One set tells how the narrator relates to the singer/musician and the song "Weary Blues." Another set tells facts about the singer/musician's life. While...
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The Weary BluesThis is an excellent question, since it suggests (correctly) that changing even one word in a work can significantly alter the impact of that work. Langston Hughes’ decision to give his poem the...
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The Weary BluesThe musician in Langston Hughes’ poem “The Weary Blues” seems to feel lonely and isolated. Several clues suggest why he may feel this way. Among those clues are the following: In line 3,...
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The Weary BluesLangston Hughes’ poem “The Weary Blues,” which is set in an era before the Civil Rights Movement, implies a number of reasons for the weariness of the musician. Those reasons include the...
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The Weary BluesIn his poem, "The Weary Blues," Langston Hughes places his piano player on Lennox Avenue (which is now named Malcolm X Boulevard). Lennox Avenue is considered by Hughes in his poem as the heartbeat...
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The Weary BluesTruthfully, the only way to know why Langston Hughes titled his famous poem "The Weary Blues" would be to ask him. Given that we no longer have that option, your opinion is as good as mine....
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The Weary BluesPublished in 1926, Langston Hughes 's first book of poetry was entitled The Weary Blues. Blues music is directly related to the African-American experience as the blues burgeoned from the work...
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The Weary BluesDespite the implication of the title, “The Weary Blues,” the process of singing his song of suffering seems to change the speaker’s mood from pain to acceptance, even peace. “The Weary...
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The Weary BluesThis poem, written in 1923, is about an African American jazz musician who is playing and singing in a nightclub. The speaker of the poem is observing the singer, noting how physically tired or...
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The Weary BluesThe Weary Blues is about a man who is in a jazz or blues bar, playing the piano and singing the blues. That is what the poem is about at its most basic level. Hughes wrote this during the Harlem...
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The Weary BluesFirst, he chooses descriptive words and phrases that provide a melancholy and tedious tone to represent his somber and often pessimistic view of the America he has experienced. In the first 12...