Answer: the answer is vanquish
Explanation:
I don't know this for sure but if an author has something to declare and they can't back it up it's just an idea. So if you want to identify the claim you have to have statistics and facts to prove what you're saying. But remember I am not am expert so whatever you think the answer is go with it. Hope this helps ;)
On "The Weary Blues" In The Big Sea Hughes reported that his "Weary Blues," which won him his first poetry prize, "included the first blues [he's] ever heard way back in Lawrence, Kansas, when [he] was a kid." In "The Weary Blues" Hughes dealt with the blues singer and his song in relation to the speaker of the poem.