Analyzing Langston Hughes 'Dreams'

In Langston Hughes’ poem, the author gives us vivid examples of how dreams get lost in the weariness of everyday life. The author uses words like dry, fester, rot, and stink, to give us a picture of how something that was originally intended for good, could end up in defeat. Throughout the play, I was able to feel how each character seemed to have their dreams that fell apart as the story went on. I believe the central theme of the play has everything to do with the pain each character goes thru after losing control of the plans they had in mind. I will attempt to break down each character’s dream and how they each fell apart as the play went on.

In the poem shown above, titled “Dreams” by Langston Hughes, Hughes begins to discuss the value of dreaming. When we as people look at each other’s lives, we compare ours to every one else’s and forget about the fact that there are some people who would love to live ours. However, there is an alternative to comparing ourselves to other people. We can aspire to surpass their goals and what they have achieved or we can dream up our own and reach it. Otherwise, they get locked away in the back of your imaginations and are never to be seen again. As a result, no dreams made means no dreams achieved. In the poem, the author compares the death of a dream to life being a broken winged bird. Life as a broken winged bird is like having life but not

Langston Hughes wrote a poem about a dream he once had in which he was not able to view the dream until he broke through a barrier in front of him. This poem was called, “ As I Grew Older.” Langston Hughes is telling us that barriers should not stop us from our dream. In the text, he demonstrates many literary elements, including metaphors, imagery, and theme. Metaphors stand out the most during this poem.

It states, “Life is a broke-winged bird-that cannot fly”. Hughes is using this metaphor as another way of saying that losing or forgetting your dreams can hold you back from living your life to the fullest.

Can you imagine a World with no dreams? What would it be like? Dreams help guide us and they help motivate us for the future. So we have never had a world with no dreams, so it's hard to see an image of one without it, well one Poet did. In Langston Hughes poem Dreams he use metaphors and similes to describe what life is like without dreams.

n “Dream Variations” written by Langston Hughes, the impression he leaves on his audience is a sense of happiness. He uses imagery, diction, and rhyme to make his impression. Hughes’ use of diction creates a feeling of joy and relaxation. “In some place of the sun, to whirl and to dance(2-3).” He is enjoying the sun by spinning and dancing around.

The purpose of the poem, “ Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes, is questioning what happens when one stops pursuing their dreams. Right off the bat, Langston Hughes proposes a question: What happens to a dream deferred? Hughes goes on to use a plethora of similes and metaphors to compare dreams to everyday objects. There are negative undertones throughout the poem, and the poem has an overall dismal tone. By using phrases such as “ fester like a sore” and “stink like rotten meat”, Hughes makes it seem that when dreams are deferred, they can haunt you. Moreover, this is not the message. Hughes is trying to create a message that says if dreams are put aside, they can affect people in certain ways. Consequently, Hughes is drawing what the dream

     Throughout the poem “Harlem,” Langston Hughes wrote with increasingly destructive images to warn of the dangers of postponing your dreams. These images help present the poem’s very strong message that a dream deferred can be very painful. The thought of how great the dream is nags at the dreamer’s mind until they can no longer bear it. The “explosion” result of this pestering dream deferred can actually be good for the dreamer. The dreamer may

The poem I chose to analyze the figurative language is called “Dreams” written by Langston Hughes. I chose this poem because it is an inspirational and real life theme about why you should follow and cherish dreams before it’s too late. The author uses both metaphors and personification to convey the theme of this poem. In the first stanza, the author uses the metaphor, "For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly," which means life's a journey.

When I read “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes, I felt like he knew how it felt to put off a dream for so long. How he described the dream when putting it off for so long, what happens to it and how it hang on to you until you either completely forget about it, or you finally complete the dream. When I read “Hope” by Emily Dickinson, I felt spiritual when she was referring hope as a bird. She best explains hope as a being that is always inside of you, waiting to be let out, to when it’s at the worst moment ever and it’s still there, helping you through, always giving and never wanting. When I read “maggie and milly and molly and may” by e.e.cummings, at first I was very frustrated and sort of confused when reading, because it doesn’t seem

The poem “Dream vibrations” by Langston Hughes is written in the format of free verse. The organization and structure of the stanzas suggest a possible message for equality. The word choice Hughes uses creates a sense of musicality throughout the poem. Langston Hughes Incorporates the art of dance in his poem to create a soft light-hearted tone to appeal to various readers, while hinting towards other messages.

Every individual has a special dream or goal they wish to achieve, however in life there are many instances where dreams have to be postpone because of dilemmas in one’s life. Langston Hughes was a popular African-American poet, known for many of his literary pieces, most notably “A Dream Deferred”. In which he uses tone, symbolism, and imagery to convey his message about the hardships of African-Americans in the 1950s. As a young boy and throughout his life, Langston experienced countless instances of racial prejudice in school. However, this did not stop him from pursuing a career as a poet, and he successfully published 16 poetry books and is known as the greatest poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

Have you ever wondered if it was easy or hard to attain childhood dreams? Through this poem, full of symbolism and detail, the character recalls back to the time in his life where it was hard to achieve his long lived dream. This was because there was bumps in his pathway of success. He didn’t let these obstacles take him down and fought his way through to eventually reach his goal. The author, Langston Hughes, main intepretation he wanted everybody to understand was everybody will have a abiding mission to achieve a dream of theirs, but individuals will soon realize that it’s not going to be simple getting there, but with determination and self-motoviation everybody will attain their dreams.

For most people, their lives are driven by one thing - this is their dream. It gives a life purpose, and a goal to strive for. Some achieve them, some don’t. In Langston Hughes’ poem, “Harlem Two” He ponders what happens to dreams that are not only unachieved, but pushed aside. Ruth, a characters from “A Rasin in the Sun”, written by Lorraine Hansberry, has a dream deferred. Ruth is a wife and a mother of Her dream develops the idea of “festering like a sore” as written in Hughes’ poem. A sore is a bother those who have one, yet they don’t really limit a body; much like how Ruth only considers her dream to be a distraction, as she goes on with her life. Ruth’s dream is a festering sore until Ruth is faced with a difficult decision, and the sore is pricked.