Literary Analysis Of The Trumpet Player By Langston Hughes

The great Langston Hughes is considered to be one of the greatest poets in his time. Many things made Hughes a praised poet today, but his most intriguing skill was his ability to interpret stories in a sophisticated way. Though the poem selection, Hughes used many obvious symbols, phrases, situations to encrypt the story of a Trumpet player life into a poem. Hughes really showed a free verse rhyming scheme throughout the poem. The poem holds a number of five stanzas with each stanza holding eight lines. Repetition was put in action I stanzas one, two, and four using the phrase “The negro with the trumpet to his lips”. The name of the poem gives a hint to the reader that the setting is at some sort of social club or bar. Hughes uses great imagery

Hughes really mastered his strongest attribute of imagery. The imagery used in Hughes poem the Trumpet Player was fascinating due to his ability to interpret the tranquility and chaos in the trumpet player’s life. In the first stanza Hughes cues the trumpet players “dark moons of weariness beneath his eyes” to help the reader understand the trumpet players past life in encaptivating slavery. The imagery used in the second stanza illustrates what the trumpet player’s hair looks like. Hughes states that the players hair is tamed down, patent leathered now until it gleams like jet. Those three lines symbolize the popular hairstyle of his era and new surroundings. The third stanza holds 2 metaphors that direct the readers attention to imagery and symbolism. The line “the trumpet at his lips is honey mixed with liquid fire” and symbolizes what the music means to the trumpet player. It also symbolizes satisfaction of the old desires of the trumpet player when he was in captive. The fourth stanza explains what the longing desire of the trumpet player was. The trumpet player drive to live helped him satisfy his desire to be free from his past life. The stanza emphasizes imagery because Hughes stated what the player was wearing. The final stanza explains the trumpet player’s succession of the adversities and trials he has endured through his life. Hughes use one more product of imagery helping the

Hughes used many aspects of literature like symbolism, imagery, and mode help the reader to find the poems main idea, theme, and other analyzing information hidden throughout the selection. The trumpet players life prosperity and adversities helped mold a drive in the player. Hughes does this to help the reader to understand the whole poem is actually an acknowledgment to the trumpet players drive to overcome his trials and tribulations. Hughes used lots of metaphors, repetition, and imagery to get that point across. Hughes created a theme of spirituality and humbleness to help the reader understand that one has to be un prideful and calm during the time of adversity. Hughes wrote this because he wanted to address all of his fellow brothers and sisters that were going through the trumpet players similar issues and situations. This poem consists of a mixture of themes such as respectful, calm, zeal because they all show characteristics of the trumpet players life

To me, the theme of the poem is surely humbleness and if not it 's surely spirituality because many situations the trumpet player endured will cause one to be calm and collective. Hughes touched many points to the viewer interpret the message of the poem. To me, the message Hughes cloaked throughout the poem is that when trouble comes one has to beat the situation and don’t let the past situations hold you back from a better