Rhythms of Hughes’s Poem

Rhythms of Hughes’s Poem

Choose one of the following poems to discuss. (The links go to the Poetry Foundation website, but all of these poems are in this week’s reading in the eText.) A “close reading” means a patient, line-by-line reading and thinking process.
Closely read Langston Hughes’s “The Weary Blues (Links to an external site.).” How do the rhythms of Hughes’s poem interact with his subject matter? How does Hughes’s use of imagery enhance your understanding of the poem?

Langston Hughes(1902-1967)
The Weary Blues 1925
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue1 the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway…. He did a lazy sway….
To the tune o’ those Weary Blues.
With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano moan with melody.
O Blues! Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool. Sweet Blues! Coming from a black man’s soul.
O Blues! In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan— “Ain’t got nobody in all this world, Ain’t got nobody but ma self. I’s gwine to quit ma frownin’ And put ma troubles on the shelf.”
Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor. He played a few chords then he sang some more— “I got the Weary Blues And I can’t be satisfied. Got the Weary Blues And can’t be satisfied— I ain’t happy no mo’ And I wish that I had died.”
And far into the night he crooned that tune. The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.

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