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Hughes Packet Note the following for each poem: Read and annotate Analyze speaker, audience, purpose Analyze the use of figurative language Analyze tone (DIDLS) Analyze theme *Example: “The Weary Blues”

Blues Music The blues lyric structure consists of two different lines, with the first line being repeated to form a three-line aab pattern. The following lines from Howlin’ Wolf’s 1951 recording of “How Many More Years” demonstrate this structure:Howlin’ Wolf a. How many more years do I got to let you dog me around? a. How many more years do I got to let you dog me around? b. I just as soon be dead, sleeping six feet in the ground. Source: ml

Duke Ellington Ella Fitzgerald

Assignment Use one of the following poems as a model to write your own poem: ◦“Theme for English B” ◦“Weary Blues” ◦“Negro Speaks of Rivers” ◦“I, Too”

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Listen to “Paradox” dox.asp

Claude McKay