The Weary Blues Analysis

Langston Hughes said that Walt Whitman was one of his influences. Whitman was one of the first American poets to break out of strict rhythm and rhyme patterns. Hughes uses more consistent rhythm in...

The speaker is really excited to tell his audience about the musician he heard, but he never gets too excited. He's more interested in setting the mood and describing the event, than talking about...

The setting of this poem jumps around a bit without the reader knowing too much. The poem starts out with no clear setting, until we find out that the speaker is talking about a bar he went to. Aft...

Imagine this poem is a twinkling piano and a drummer gently tapping out the beats on a cymbal. The poem starts off kind of quickly until you get to the first "He did a lazy sway…" Otherwise,...

In a nutshell, "The Weary Blues" is a poem about a musician that wears himself out by singing the blues. "The Weary Blues" is the title of a ragtime song that Artie Matthews wrote in 1915. It's pos...

Writers are always supposed to write what they know. And as one of Harlem's literati (reader and writer of sophisticated literature), Langston Hughes sure spent a lot of time writing about shady pl...

Don't rack your brain too much over this one. Once you get the idea of the setting and the characters, just let yourself get into it. "The Weary Blues" is more about sharing in the musical experien...

A little lovin' and the guy wouldn't have the blues, now would he?

Ragtime music originated by Scott Joplin "The Weary Blues" by Artie Matthews Lenox Avenue"Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon": Cab Calloway, "Minnie the Moocher""He made that poor piano moan...