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    in the medical field has been my dream ever since I was in middle school. I realized nursing was the profession for me when my grandfather became very sick with lung cancer during my freshman year of high school. It puzzled me that one of the healthiest and most physically active people I knew could be afflicted by such a damaging disease. After watching the suffering my grandfather had to experience and pain my entire family felt from his death, I knew I wanted to go into a field to help others

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    Everyone has a dream no matter how high or low the person aims. Dreams can affect life in the future or the present and help get through life with a goal to reach. Langston Hughes expressed this affects in his poem ‘‘Dreams.’’ Langston Hughes showed a real life experience with imagery when a person is struggling with life but his dream makes him get through the hard work and any problem that he has. Hughes used imagery to show that life need a dream to have a reason to live. Everyone in life

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    Poetry Explication: “Dreams” By Langston Hughes In “Dreams” by Langston Hughes, metaphors and personification help convey the meaning of the poem and add to the free form of the poem. Hughes starts off by stressing that one should hold on to their dreams (line 1). The word choice of using “fast” suggest that Hughes believes one should hold tightly to their dreams, which is a connotation of an inspiration, rather than the denotation of a series of events that occur in the mind while sleeping. Then

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    Hughes depicts African American life in his poems the way he sees his role in society. In his poem, “Dreams”, Langston Hughes describes the life of African Americans as lacking fullness due to a shortage of dreams. In the poem, “Dreams”, Langston Hughes uses metaphors and personification to show how miserable a life without dreams can become. In stanza one, Hughes compares a life without dreams to a broken-winged bird through the use of the metaphor, “life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”

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    In “Dreams,” Langston Hughes portrays the importance of grasping dreams and the negative outcomes of letting them go. The poem demoralizes a life without dreams when comparing them to hopeless situations. Through the use of metaphors, the poem conveys a powerful message on the significance of dreams. Through the metaphor of a bird, the poem shows why it is so important to dream and to essentially set goals. In the second and third lines of the poem, it is stated, “Life is a broken winged bird

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    Lagnston Hughes' Poem Dreams

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    Langston Hughes’ poem “Dreams” discusses the value of having goals and aspirations. The poem is relatively short and uses metaphors to express such utter importance of dreams. In the first stanza Hughes’ implies that a life without dreams is useless and may as well not even exist. The whole of a bird’s existence is to be able to use its’ wings to fly, just like a human’s life only has a purpose to exist if there are dreams to give it meaning. The second stanza contains another metaphor about

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    In “Dreams.” Langston Hughes uses figurative speech to stress the importance of dreams. This poem conveys a message to the reader that a life without dreams is meaningless. The speaker uses a variety of figurative language throughout the poem such as personification and metaphors. He personifies dreams in two tenses. The first “For if dreams die” The speaker is telling the auditor that if one does not hold onto a dream then it will go away with no hopes of returning.(Line 2) The speaker takes dreams

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    doesn't appear or live in a fictional way. Unlike in the movie field of dreams, it is considered more of a romantic view of Shoeless Joe. He appears in a fictional way in what I consider a ghost version of himself. Secondly, the ending in 8 men out it is considered realistic because the ending is unhappy which is habitually the case of realism. In 8 men out Joe is banned from ever playing in the MLB. On the other hand in the Field of Dream is ending is happy with the Joe having the opportunity to play

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    the family plunges into debt and she always supports Ray's dreams. Annie says, "It's so perfect here. Do whatever you have to, to keep it that way" (Kinsella 28). This quote supports how optimistic Annie is, and her support for Ray . Annie relates to the character Marlin in Finding Nemo because they are both caring and intelligent. Marlin becomes very supportive of Nemo, and the decisions Annie makes are supportive of Ray's dreams and decisions. Annie relates to the theme that its important

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    “Dreams” a poem written in 1926 by Langston Hughes, coveys two messages for the reader. The first message is that one should hold strongly to their dreams and never let go; while the second message leads the reader to see, without dreams, one will live a cold life that lacks inspiration. Through a careful explication of the poem “Dreams,” one may argue that Hughes use of figurative language, sound device, symbols, imagery, and tone help reflect his messages that one should hold firmly to dreams,

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