Blog 10 Extra Credit
For my research paper I chose to use two poems by Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues", and "Dream Boogie". I really enjoyed the two poems we read in class "Harlem" and "Theme for English B". I liked the content of the poems and that fact that it kept me thinking afterwards, but to me there was just something special about the rhythms of the poems that had me the most interested. So I decided to find some more of his poems at the library and my two favorite poems I read were "The Weary Blues" and "Dream Boogie" because he wrote them to emulated two different styles of jazz, Boogie and Blue. I think it's amazing he managed to capture the essence of the two styles of music in his poems, and I knew had to used them for my research paper.
At the being of the semester I would never have chosen poems by Langston Hughes, mainly because I had never heard of him before I took this class. Also initially the thought of using a poem for my research paper was out because I never thought that I could write something that long on a poem, but after falling in love with these poems made it much easier. Also I thought it might be difficult to find sources for poems, but after I researched I found it rather easy to find tons of really good sources and am actually a little bit excited about writting this one!
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