Langston Hughes's "Trumpet Player"
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SummaryLangston Hughes's poem, "Trumpet Player", is both a celebration of and reach for a Black identity. The poem's vivid imagery and careful metaphors connote to a theme consistent among Hughes's work. The poem quietly speaks of oppression, of a violent past, of desperation and ongoing struggle, of a search for identity, but at the same time celebrates the grace and beauty of the "Negro." The poem's rhythmic structure and rhyming scheme give it a musical flow appropriate to the title and the subject matter. The poem is about Black man; a trumpet player playing at a club and the poem serves to speak how the music this man plays mellows the violent conflict within him.
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- The persona of this poem is not necessarily the trumpet player but more likely an observer at the club in which he is playing
- The words 'vibrant hair tamed down' refer to the suppression of African Americans in our society.
- In Hughes's "Trumpet Player" the repetition of certain words and lines lend to the suggestive structure of the poem, almost like lyrics that repeat, or a pattern of notes that form a chorus.
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