Theme Of Narrow And Grief In Blues Music

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Along with his physical fatigue the singer also has sorrow and grief. One of the main themes of blues music itself is melancholy or misery. The narrator says that the singer sang “in a deep song voice with a melancholy tone,” and that “he played that sad raggy tune” showing that the singer stuck with this theme. (Hughes 1624) The lyrics seen above as well as the other lines of the song, ‘“Ain’t got nobody in this world,/ Ain’t got nobody but ma self./ I’s gwine to quit ma frownin’/ And put my troubles on the shelf,”’ also show that the singer is experiencing sorrow as he is singing. (Hughes 1624) The narrator says that the song was “coming from a black man’s soul.” (Hughes 1624) This shows the reader that the singer is not just singing these