Dream By: Langston HughesHold fast to dreams
For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. |
In this poem, Langston Hughes is talking about how to take care of dreams and explaining what dreams are by using figurative language. He achieves this by using hyperboles, metaphors, and personification. Langston Hughes in this poem uses hyperboles by dramatizing what will happen if you lose a dream or let them go. For example, in the second stanza he says, “For when dreams go life is a barren field frozen with snow.” In this, he is exaggerating what will happen if you let dreams go. He is trying to stress the importance of crating dreams for yourself and the importance of doing them. He also uses personification by saying that dreams can fly if you let them go. He is trying to that dreams will escape from you and you will never get them back because they have flown away. Finally, he uses metaphors by saying how dreams are birds and fields. In “Dreams” by: Langston Hughes, the author uses figurative language to show the exaggeration of what will happen if you let your dreams go or let them be lost forever.
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