The Weary Blues Analysis Essay

Reading poetry is extremely difficult, so I tried in a different way: I went to YouTube and looked for someone reading out loud The Weary Blues. Then I founded Langston Hughes reciting this precise poem, accompanied by a jazz band. Immediately I felt transported to 1958, seated in the front row of the theater, felling a mix of rhythm and depression in the air. Then, sitting in a stool in front of me, Langston Hughes starts to recite his "Weary Blues". In the way that Langston recited the poem, seems for me more like a song, the arranged of the music is perfectly synchronized with every single line of the poem. I felt mesmerized by the rhythm of the poem, even though I barely couldn't understand the meaning. There was something in the way the poem was recited that made me fell that the significance of this poem was related with sadness and pain. After read carefully the
He try to rhyme with similar sounds at the end of the lines, with this the author creates a enjoyable experience in the moment of reciting. He also utilizes in several parts of the poem alliterations, in order to intensify some ideas, for example when he expresses in line 9 "with his ebony hands on each ivory key" the idea of contrast or black and white is intensified. He also uses repetition like a way to express satisfaction, in the way that the spectator is contemplating the musician. Even though the musician is havin a bad time in his life, he is giving an admirable performance. "O blues, Sweet blues". The author also uses assonance like a literary devices, and I think he did it because he wanted to give to the poem a informal effect, like if it wasn't even a poem, like if they were the thoughts and word of a normal person with the objective of enjoy a performance in a bar or a