Poetry by Langston Hughes - The Weary Blues

I was just telling a friend the other day that I wanted to do a kids' book on Langston Hughes, but she didn't know much of his work. So then this popped up in the sift. Perfect.

The Weary Blues was written by Langston Hughes in 1923 and recited in the film by author and Harvard Professor Dr. Allen Dwight Callahan.

The speaker of Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues" describes an evening of listening to a blues musician in Harlem. With its diction, its repetition of lines and its inclusion of blues lyrics, the poem evokes the mournful tone and tempo of blues music and gives readers an appreciation of the state of mind of the blues musician in the poem.

Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.

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