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“The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes illustrates Hughes form of writing in a jazzy beat. Hughes is known for his poems about the chronicles of African American life during the middle decades of the last century. His poetry is usually easily understood and straight forward to the point. The image formed in the mind in this poem is that of a black man playing a piano under a light in the darkness of the street. Almost as if he is on stage under a spotlight. The man is obviously sad about something as he is “rocking back and fourth to a mellow croon.” The repetition of “he did a lazy sway” helps to visualize the mellowness of the character. Hughes uses half rhyme in this poem. With “key” and “melody” in lines nine and ten he