Why Is Langston Hughes Called 'The Weary Blues'?
Across the Atlantic Ocean in New York City, the competitive building of tall skyscrapers and the dazzling light of the advertisements marked the apogee of this metropolitan city, which has a mixture of all cultures and racism became invisible. It thus attracted many African American from the south. Langston Hughes, hailed from south state of Missouri, finding refuge in Harlem and later became a writer and a poet.
In his poem ‘ The Weary Blues’, Hughes delineated his beloved Harlem through music and movement. Comparing with small and overt Dublin, New York city is seven times larger, people could easily live discreetly, such as the character in the poem, who plays music in an unobtrusive corner in ‘the safety of the black community’ . The
In his poem ‘ The Weary Blues’, Hughes delineated his beloved Harlem through music and movement. Comparing with small and overt Dublin, New York city is seven times larger, people could easily live discreetly, such as the character in the poem, who plays music in an unobtrusive corner in ‘the safety of the black community’ . The