The Weary Blues By Langston Hughes

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes is a lyric poem. The narrator describes an African American, who is observed singing and playing a blues number. The poem provides a sample of the blues that expresses to the reader a sad, melancholy feel. Blues singers themselves identify melancholy and misery as a theme of the blues. As the poem progresses, the narrator describes the blues singer releasing his pent-up emotions of loneliness and pain through song. The singer used the blues as a musical escape to relieve some of his pain. The reader can tell that the singer is obviously sad about something as he is rocking back and forth to a mellow croon. The repetition of he did a lazy sway helps to visualize this. the piano itself comes to life