Dream Poems
Introduction“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.” ― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart. Dreams are powerful things that can affect your life in many ways. A dream can be a goal you set or visions you create while you are sleeping. This anthology of poems focuses on both types of dreams and how they affect you. Let’s start with dreams that are goals. These dreams allow you as a person to get places in life and help you become a better person. These dreams make you want to work hard every day so you can fulfill your goal. This anthology focuses on this in Langston Hughes’ poem “Dreams”, when he talks explains what happens to dreams if you give up.
Now let’s talk about the other type of dream, the ones you create while you are asleep. Dreams are not just things you create in your head; they are thoughts that represent who you are. Dreams are living things like us. These dreams are interesting and can have many different and creative visions within them. In the poem “Birds Appearing in a Dream” by Michael Collier, the poet describes breathe taking birds he sees in his dream and their vast and vivid colors. The poet is trying to explain to you his dreams. The poems in this anthology will express the poets’ thoughts about dreams as well as how they feel about dreams. I hope these that poems make you think more about your dreams and cause you to think critically think about how these writers talk about dreams. I hope that after reading this poem you close the window and say, “Now I am going to go dream.” |
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