1) Speculate about why people sing the blues and why people listen to the blues How are the blues entertaining ?

Hughes embraced blues music because it expressed the worries of the common man in a simple and direct manner. Blues songs feature heavy repetition, and singers often seem to be laughing and crying at the same time. The critic Edward Waldron writes about Hughes's blues poetry: "We confront many of the themes that he develops more fully in other works. Loneliness, despair, frustration, and a nameless sense of longing are all represented in the blues poetry."