Poetry Explications

EXPLICATION OF HUGHES ' WEARY BLUES

Langston Hughes ' The Weary Blues ' is structured and reads like a blues song , being an end in itself as the song the persona in the poem was singing . The rhyme and rhythm when the poem is read aloud is melodious and languid because of the long vowel sounds as in croon night , light at the beginning of the poem . It suggests that the persona singing the weary blues is feeling passive , as though brought down and heavy by the burden he is carrying , the weariness

The dramatic

reality of the poem is a Negro playing a blues tune on his piano expressing his unhappiness , and afterwards goes to bed like a rock or a dead man . The poem dramatizes the conflict between a man and his situation - in this case a black man against his oppression . Indeed , the blues is a musical genre that the African Americans used to assert their identity and culture especially in a time when society was harsh and discriminating . This blues poem then , represents the black man 's woes - both figuratively in the poem and reflectively in history . It is a cry of a man who has been fighting until the end . The blues became the black man 's escape and expression , one of the few things they can do on their own right without being persecuted

The poem began with Droning a drowsy syncopated tune ' which suggests that perhaps this black man has been drinking or too intoxicated with...