Langton Huges
James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin Missouri to an abolitionist family. His farther was the first black man elected to public office in 1885. Langston attended high school in Ohio, where he began to write poetry in the eighth grade. He was elected class poet. His farther did not think that Hughes could make a living writing poetry and urged him to peruse a different career. He's farther paid for Langston to attend Columbia University to study engineering. However, Langston continued to write poetry. He eventually dropped out to peruse his desired career, poetry despite maintaining a "B+" average, at Columbia University. Langston was one of the pioneers of the Harlem Renaissance. In the roaring twenty's blacks poets, artist, and singers in Harlem emerged to show that they had talent in all of the arts. This was an important time for blacks. The Harlem Renaissance symbolized the first time in history; black artistes received recognition for their work. Langston's first poem was The Negro Speak of the River in 1926 this poem opened the door for many great poems to follow. In that same year a poem called The Weary Blues was also published, this poem happens to be on or of my favorite poems. In
The important elements of any story are its characters, narrator, setting, plot/action, conclusion, climax, theme and audience. There are two kinds of relationships in every story or rhetorical artifact, casual and temporal. "Casual relationship" which deal with the sequence of events in the story. The conclusion of the story comes when the poem ends with Hughes describing the singer as sitting there after the song with no emotion but the look of exhaustion on his face. Coming at the point in the end of the poem and the performance makes the theme more meaningful. These acts of greatness give the reader a message of inspiration and enlightenment. Hughes does and excellent job of catching type of emotion in this poem. Throughout lines in the poem there was evidence that the singer was upset helpless and wanted to die. As stated earlier in the paper Hughes use some slang, This captures the realism of the [poem and proves Hughes feels that you don't have to conform to the conventional type of poetry. The setting talked about in the poem was in a Blues nightclub in Harlem. In the club, it was dark; smoke consumed the room, by the pale dull pallor of an old gas lead the reader to believe that Hughes is in a hazy environment. He also describes it as being semi crowded in the nightclub. This picture described in the poem immediately establishes a relationship with the audience because the lone character seems to be in another world; his own world because he obviously appears very concentrated on the song he is singing. The reader of the poem is made to feel that they are watching and intruding on a depressed man's private act. A for the plot of the commercial, that develops in the middle of the poem when the man singing the blues is described frowning his face in a look of depression. Until the singer brought his head up from playing the piano with his face haunted with the look of depression that seems to be the plot of
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