"jazz fantasia" and "the weary blues" convey different tones. discuss how each poem made you feel.

The poem "The Weary Blues" is melancholy and "Jazz Fantasia" is upbeat. In The Weary Blues, it presents a folk feeling which are tragic and comic at the same time. The form of the blues fights the emotion of the blues. Whereas for "Jazz Fantasia", the author creates sound devices, imagery, and personification. This is to convey his message that music is a part of freedom to express your emotions. For example in the first stanza, he uses the drums to grab attention and focus on the sounds. The same goes on the second stanza. The purpose of the poem is to attract our senses, reveal his feelings, arouse our emotions and to change our attitudes using sounds. 

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The theme of social protest remained a consistent focus for jacob lawrence throughout his career. in the 1960s lawrence was inspired by news reports and photographs, including images of segregated lunch counter sit-ins and stories of the   freedom riders in the civil rights movement. from the 1970s onward, lawrence's work focused less explicitly on contemporary social issues.