“The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes illustrates Hughes form of writing in a jazzy beat. Hughes is known for his poems about the chronicles of African American life during the middle decades of the last century. His poetry is usually easily understood and straight forward to the point.

The image formed in the mind in this poem is that of a black man playing a piano under a light in the darkness of the street. Almost as if he is on stage under a spotlight. The man is obviously sad about something as he is “rocking back and fourth to a mellow croon.” The repetition of “he did a lazy sway” helps to visualize the mellowness of the character.

Hughes uses half rhyme in this poem. With “key” and “melody” in lines nine and ten he

This was a great sentimental poem. Its purpose is very moving being to express this mans feelings and the experience of watching the man sing in a Bluesy manner. This poem did in a way make me feel better about myself. It puts me in a place where I could watch a man singing the blues from a street corner who isn’t even singing for attention, but for his own purposes and self satisfaction.

creates an image of the mans “ebony hands on the ivory keys” of the piano. This phrase to me represents black and white in a way that is not racial. He even says that the piano “moans” as if the piano also suffers from the blues or from what the man is suffering from. The man sings of his sadness, but what he is sad about is never expressed. The poems volume and speed changes throughout the poem. Th

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