An Analysis Of Trumpet Player By Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes compositions are known for being the voice of the Harlem Renaissance. A considerable number of his written work shared the feelings of that time. This particular poem Trumpet Player mirrors that music can lift the agony remembered, but one always remembers the hardships. The poem shares that freed blacks still experienced the impacts of slavery. Because of this, they held onto music as a method for soothing the agony they persevered. Trumpet Player is composed in four eight-line stanzas and two six-line stanzas. The poem has no genuine arrangement of organization. The stanzas differ extraordinarily. For example, the lengths of the relating lines and the utilization of capitalization differ. The poem additionally does†¦show more content†¦This metaphor refers to Americas history of slavery and the unacceptable conditions that the slaves were compelled to endure on ships that shipped them. From this metaphor, the speaker additionally expresses that these are not recollections blurring endlessly with the past but rather will be â€Å"blazed† and smoldering. As to dealing with repetition, The two lines â€Å"The Negro / With the trumpet at his lips† are repeated (1-2, 9-10, 33-34). The repetition of this picture fills in as both a steady indication of the difficult memories that inconvenienced the trumpet player and an approach to fortify his enthusiasm for music to facilitate that pain. Additi onally, the repetition of these two lines implies that the trumpet player has in some ways end up plainly reliant on music. This idea is affirmed by the third stanza, in which the speaker states, the rhythm/from the trumpet at his lips/is ecstasy/distilled from old desires—, alluding to his waiting desire that is longing for the sea/where the seas a bar-glass/sucker size (21-24, 29-32). This shows he utilized alcohol in the past to overwhelm his agony, before supplanting it with music for the help. Additionally, the last stanza portrays music just like a hypodermic needle/to his soul, alluding that he has an addiction to music (39-40). Without the music