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1) How has the role of music changed in society over the years? 2) "The Guitar" 3) Federico Garcia Lorca 4)http://m.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/guitar 5) Website, May 31 2014 6) In his poem "The Guitar", Federico Garcia Lorca uses personification and a melancholy tone to bring the guitar to life and shows how it can evoke such strong emotion in the audience. 7) Federico repeats the word "weeping" to show that the guitar actually sounds like it is crying and brings out such strong emotions in people. In the beginning of the poem, he states that the guitar can not be silenced. Its weeping and crying is for all to hear. Above all, musical instruments can express emotions that no words can say. 8) The sound and nature of the guitar is melancholy and endless. The Guitar is like a broken human heart, weeping and weeping 9) I am persuade by the authors treatment of this topic. As a musician myself, I know the profoundness and voice music can have, and how strongly it can affect one's emotions. 10) "The weeping of the Guitar begins." "Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it." "It weeps for distant things." "Heart mortally wounded by five swords."

1) How has the role of music changed in society over the years? 2) "The Weary Blues" 3) Langston Hughes 4) http://m.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/weary-blues 5) Website, May 31 2014 6) In his poem "The Weary Blues", Langston Hughes uses repetition, descriptive diction, and dialogue to show the importance and impact of Blues Music to the African-American culture. 7) Hughes describes an old Negro man playing piano on Lenox Avenue, and he was playing the blues and "crooning" songs. It has a melancholy yet hopeful tone about the cultural impact of music, especially the blues. 8) The Blues not only brought African-Americans together but also were a representation of and symbolized their collective troubles. 9) I am persuaded by Hughes' treatment of this topic. Music can be extremely important to a culture, the blues especially being associated with the African-Americans. The tone is appropriate with the topic of blues. 10) " Sweet Blues! Coming from a black man's soul. O Blues!"

"Ain't got nobody in all this world, Ain't got nobody but ma self. I's gwine to quit ma frownin' And put ma troubles on the shelf."

"I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied. Got the Weary Blues And can't be satisfied— I ain't happy no mo' And I wish that I had died."

"In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan"