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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.
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. He made that poor piano moan with melody.
"The Weary Blues" is a poem by American poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1925, [1] "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine Opportunity . It was awarded the magazine's prize for best poem of the year.
- Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten
- United States
- 1931
- 1925; 98 years ago
‘The Weary Blues’ describes the performance of a blues musician playing in a club on Lenox Avenue in Harlem. The piece mimics the tone and form of Blues music and uses free verse and closely resembles spoken English.
The Harlem Renaissance was all about generating renewed sense of self, purpose, and pride for Black communities, and “The Weary Blues” gave powerful expression to those values. Read a summary & analysis, an analysis of the speaker, and explanations of important quotes from “The Weary Blues.”
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...
“The Weary Blues” is about the performance of a black blues musician who is playing in a club in Harlem on Lenox Avenue. The poem imitates the form and tone of the Blues music and employs free verse in his work that resembles the spoken language.
