The Weary Blues Analysis

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes is an influential protest poem that depicts a man in a blues bar, who is playing away at the piano, singing the blues. The poem was obviously developed at the time of the Harlem Renaissance and was published in 1923. The weary blues won multiple awards due to its influential style of writing. The Weary Blues was publish in a place called Harlem, which was filled with musical and artistic potential. At the time of the Harlem Renaissance, the musical genre known as the blues was used day in day out. People around the world could easily relate to this poem because everyone has felt sad, depressed and down. The theme of the poem is mainly about living with the use of music and the suffering that was brought upon
. . He did a lazy sway . . ." He also uses a wide range of Metaphors to convey his message "He made that poor piano moan with melody." "In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone." The rhythm of the Weary Blues is quite slow and this is portrayed in everyone line of the poem take the first line " "Droning a drowsy syncopated tune" At the start of each word it is meant to be said faster than the end of the word. This keeps the rhythm of the poem to stay quite slow and have a blues rhythm. The word syncopated is defined as " Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats." This word sets the shifting rhythm for the rest of the poem, another example of this is "Down on Lenox Avenue the other night." in both of these lines you can also clearly see these lines show a blues style of music. Lenox Avenue is a main route that passes through Harlem. This tells the reader that the bar is on Lenox Avenue and this sets the theme for the rest of the poem. Langston Hughes also uses repetition in the weary blues an example of this is "Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the