| “The Weary Blues” and “Lenox Avenue: Midnight” by Langston Hughes are two
poems written as scenes of urban life. Although these poems were written more
than seventy years ago, it is surprising to see some general similarities they
share with modern day city life. Dilluted down with word play and irrelevant
lines such as “And the gods are laughing at us.”, the underlying theme is
evidently urban life. “The Weary Blues” and “Lenox Avenue: Midnight” approach
the general topic of urban life from two different aspects also.
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