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"Dreams" by Langston Hughes

The Importance Of Dreams

"Hold fast to dreams".

"For if dreams die."

"Life would be a broken winged bird."

The poem means your life is limited.

It's like a broken winged bird. If you don't hold fast to dreams, you have wasted your life. Now your life is a frozen barren field covered with snow.

"Hold fast to dreams."

"For when dreams go."

"Life is a barren field."

"Frozen with snow."

Tone of "Dreams"

The tone of the poem "Dreams" was regreting, because the quote

"Hold fast to dreams".

Means to tell the reader to do something and the quote

"For if you let dreams die, life will be a broken winged bird."

Meaning that this will happen if you don't do something.

Citations

Meaning of "Dreams"

Figurative language

The language used in this poem was metaphor, simile, and imagery.

http://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313

If you do not dream, you are no human, because dreams are what built this community piece by piece. And without dreams, this world will go back to 600 B.C, when cave men roamed the land. Dreams are simply thoughts of the future.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dreams-2/

"Dreams"

Theme to "Dreams"

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8495507-Dreams-by-Langston-Hughes

Central point of "Dreams"

Ideas for "Dreams"

Simile

The poem Dreams was created in 1923, when Langston's parents Carrie and James Hughes divorced. The poem was made to heal the sadness for when his parents separated.

"For if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Meaning that if you do nothing with your thoughts and feelings you will accomplish nothing.

Metaphor

"Life is a broken winged bird".

"Life is a barren field".

"Life is a barren field."

"Frozen with snow."

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/langston-hughes?gclid=Cj0KEQiAz7OlBRDErsTx47LKz-8BEiQAY0OlYkPK7zfi0zP2xGhj2rFCJpNj_Qx2CdQ_J9I52bG7GfAaAuGT8P8HAQ#about

The idea of the poem was to say that dreams are an important step in life and without it, we wouldn't be the people we are today.

The Idea was inspire new writers to expose their thoughts to the world when they want to and to keep it to themselves when they are ready to go.

This quote is a metaphor because life is compared with frozen and then compared with snow

This is a simile because both of the quotes compare two things.

Meaning that your life will be as cold as the South Pole

Life to a broken winged bird

Life to a barren field

http://www.kansasheritage.org/crossingboundaries/idream.html

http://archive.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/hughes.html

This is imagery because these quotes are telling you this and to see into the future if you do this or that

These traits are in the poem because these describe the feel of the story and how he thinks of the subject.

Imagery

Text structure

http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_08.02.01_u

"Hold fast to dreams".

"For if dreams die".

"Hold fast to dreams".

"For if dreams go".

Dreams is a poem, so there will be....

-Lines

-Stanzas (2)

-Rhyme Scheme

-Rhymes

-repetition

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/langston-hughes-born-1902-20420.html

Mood of "Dreams"

If you read the poem "Dreams", you are suspose to feel connected with the world, and have the feeling of hope. If you don't, I guess you have no feelings.

Consequences, choices, and rewards

If you don't hold on to your dreams and keep them, you have given up on life.

If you don't believe in dreams, from the inside and outside, you are a machine.

If you hold on to dreams and kelt them all your life, then you suceeded in life.

If you believe in your dreams, then you are a true human from the inside and the outside.

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