Imagine a dark and gloomy night in the heart of Harlem, where the soulful sound of a black musician empowers his emotions through blues music. This image is characteristic of the symbolic art movement known as the “Harlem Renaissance” (also known as the “New Negro Renaissance”) that began after World War I in the 1920s and lasted until the mid-1930s Depression. Groups of talented African Americans display their racial identity in America by producing a remarkable amount of literature, art, and music. One of the most influential figures of this period is Langston Hughes, a black writer and poet, who expresses himself through his unique and rhythmic writing. In his poem, “The Weary Blues,” Hughes creates racial identity, sorrowful tone, and soulful mood through the use of vivid imagery, rhythm (syncopation), and double consciousness to state the poem's theme of music and culture. Hughes writes about a speaker's experience of a musical performance and recounts the blues music sung by an unnamed black musician to reveal the challenging African-American identity in a white society in the 1920s. The title, “The Weary Blues,” ushers the poem into a flood of emotion and sadness. According to oed.com, “tired” means “having the sensation of loss of strength, languor and need for rest, produced by continuous effort (physical or mental), by resistance to severe pain or by being awake; tired, tired." The Oxford English Dictionary's colloquial definition for the noun defines "blues" as "feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression" or "a melancholic style of music, typically centered on a twelve-bar sequence based on a standard harmonic progression and having a any of a number of distinctive characteristics intended to express the soulful tone of the performer...... middle of paper ...... to express his emotions This piece holds the reader's attention throughout the poem because of the intriguing style and story between a speaker and a singer. Overall, "The Weary Blues" interprets the speaker's experience of the blues with an empathetic vision of the African American soul and art The musician seeks to achieve relief through his music, which expresses the deeper meaning of Hughes's African-American double consciousness during the Harlem Renaissance literary movement Hughes writes that the musician's blues exhausts him to sleep, but the melody gets stuck in his head, the which infers an unanswered ending that means there's even more to the story: he's still dissatisfied with his problems. Overall, the rhythmic flow and music of the poem indicates the time of change for African Americans and racial pride in the connection between art and literature..