Question

The setting of “The Weary Blues” is

a.
a blues festival in New Orleans.
c.
a steamboat on the Mississippi.
b.
a nightclub on Lenox Avenue.
d.
a dark street lit by a gas lamp.

Answer 1

The setting of "The Weary Blues" is B. a nightclub on Lenox Avenue. This can be uncovered by the lines;

I heard a Negro play.

Down on Lenox Avenue the other night

As well as;

In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone

I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan—

Answer 2

The literary work "The Weary Blues" has been one of the most prominent lyrical poems during the contemporary American literature. The poem tells about an African-American which is a performer and occasionally plays the piano at a nightclub in Lenox Avenue located in Harlem, New York City.