Langston Hughes gives his poem "The Weary Blues" a "syncopated" rhythm-to convey the jazz feel of the piece- similar to Jimi Hendrix's rendition of 70s music incorporated both a blues feel with and upbeat style. While others might say that Hughes wrote his poems solely to convey slavery, in actuality they had several meanings. In all of Hughes' pieces he incorporates repetition of words and phrases, this compares to the book The Glass Castle in which Jeanette Walls uses the repetition of fire to emphasis one of her themes. The never ending themes to be constructed from his poems include: heritage runs "deep", the blues began with the blacks, everyone is the same on the inside, blacks deserve rights, and what all Americans should deserve(privileges). These possibilities are as vast as outer space, but all meanings are similar to African American's struggle which the Greeks would say was decided by the Fates. Hughes uses his poems to convey themes about African American struggles, however; these themes can be related to other topics including music, racism, and America.
That is a Fantastic picture (intentional capitalization). You do a very good job of sticking to the musical theme your blogs tend to have. The mirror of syncopated rhythms Hughes incorporated in his poems was well analyzed in your blog this week despite the puzzling handicaps we had.
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