Answer:
Hughes' poetry is closely connected to jazz music. In fact, he founded the style of poetry called “jazz poetry,” in which the rhythm of the poem when spoken aloud mirrors the sounds that jazz music make. Hughes is also celebrated for his portrayal of the nuances of life as an African-American in the 1920s.
Explanation:
Langston Hughes, a central poet of the Harlem renaissance, was significantly influenced by the sounds and traditions of the blues and jazz. He points out that all the great blues musicians, by performing, have been “communicating for money,” and that this in no way compromised their craft. With its diction, its repetition of lines and the inclusion of blues lyrics, the poem evokes the mournful tone and tempo of blues music and gives its reader an insight into the mind of the blues musician in the poem.
