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"I slept like a rock or a man that's dead." Why would Langston Hughes use this line. Sleeping like a log is a perfectly good synonym for heavily sleeping but to sleep like a rock or a man that's dead just seems extremely negative and I just can't figure out why he would say this. The only other place in this poem that mentions death is when he writes "I got the Weary Blues, And I can't be satisfied, I ain't happy no mo', And I wish that I had died." Now what does this tell us about Langston Hughes? This tells us that he supports the man who is singing and playing the piano but it also says that he feels sorry for him because he has the Weary Blues stuck in his head. Hughes could also mean that the piano player was just tired and not dead but we don't have enough information to make an educated guess.