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Dreams By Langston Hughes Essay

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This essay is going to be talking about a poem called Dream Deferred. I selected this poem, since I liked the wording of it and what Hughes was writing it about. The title to me tells me that a dream can always disappear and that some dreams can fall. My first impression of this poem was wow! The reason I liked the poem was because the wording he used. This poem before I researched about, I thought it meant that someone has a dream and that their dream has been vanished. This poem's tone is negative, because in one part he's talking about African Americans and how they don't have freedom. The poem has to do with African families and how their having to face prejudice and economic hardship (GradeSaver 2). People make decision everyday and they get ruined or don’t happen. In “Dreams” by Langston Hughes he shows that everyone has dreams and dreams die. …show more content…

This poem was published in 1951, and I don't know anything about that time period other than that there were poems written in that time period (The Life and Work of Langston Hughes 3) He was born in Missouri, then he moved to Lincoln, Illinois to live with his mom and then they finally settled in Ohio but Hughes began writing in Illinois. He went to many different colleges, but he was in Washington D.C. when he published his 1st book The Weary Blues. He then moved to Pennsylvania. He worked in odd jobs such as assistant cook, launderer, and a busboy (The Life and Work of Langston Hughes 3)He wrote about African families having no rights and no freedom, but I don't know if that was from that time

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