Verisimilitude via Artception

One of the themes which is created by Langston Hughes in his poem "The Weary Blues" is the theme of suffering of the African Americans which cannot be truly felt unless experienced firsthand. "The Weary Blues" provides a realistic description of the pain of the marginalized. This sense of verisimilitude is fostered especially through the song of the piano man, creating an image of an actual man singing with a "melancholy tone" (Hughes). In this sense, Hughes creates an artception, in which within his art, his poem, there is another artist expressing his art, his pain. This ironically fosters verisimilitude in that the art expressed by the singer is actually written by a real life artist, Hughes, while being expressed by another artist, the singer. The "weary blues" he sings remark how he "ain't got nobody in this world" (Hughes) and the fact that no one can truly experience the pain he feels in his song besides himself. This axiom is traced to the fact in which an artist performing often has the feeling which he cannot explain to a regular bystander. This is similar to the pain felt by the marginalized, as only those who suffered through the pains truly understand it. The men who understand the true pain of the "blues" are the ones who have actually experienced the blues themselves.