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The Weary Blues. By Langston Hughes. Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night. By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light. He did a lazy sway. . . . To the tune o’ those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key.
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Here’s Langston Hughes reading “The Weary Blues,” backed by...
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November 1926 | Harriet Monroe, Malcolm Cowley, Countee...
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Splicing a note from Hughes’s “The Weary Blues” into a riff...
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"The Weary Blues" is one of Hughes's most famous poems. Critics have claimed that the poem is a combination of blues and jazz with personal experiences. It embodies blues as a metaphor and form. It has also been coined as one of the first works of blues performance in literature.
Langston Hughes's “The Weary Blues,” first published in 1925, describes a black piano player performing a slow, sad blues song. This performance takes place in a club in Harlem, a segregated neighborhood in New York City.
A poem that captures the mood and sound of a blues musician playing in Harlem in 1925. The poem uses free verse, colloquial language, and musical terms to convey the singer's sadness and the speaker's sympathy.
A poem by Langston Hughes about a Negro pianist playing the blues on Lenox Avenue. The poem captures the mood, rhythm and lyrics of the blues, as well as the loneliness and despair of the singer.
The Weary Blues Lyrics. Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play, Down on Lenox Avenue the other night. By the pale dull pallor of an...
The Weary Blues is Langston Hughes' first published book of poetry. It was published by Knopf in 1926, with a preface by Carl Van Vechten . Alongside Alain Locke's anthology, The New Negro: an Interpretation (1925), the publication of Hughes' collection of poems is one of the defining moments of the Harlem Renaissance.
