What Is The Mood Of The Poem Dream Variations By Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes’ “Dream Variations” is a poem with simple, unambiguous language based on the discrimination against African-Americans and their lack of representation in a predominately white culture. Evoking a sense of freedom and hope, Hughes demonstrates through the speaker in the poem a dream for a life free of the looming “white day” (Hughes 4). Hughes uses form to provide social commentary on these subjects by utilizing both repetition and rhythm. The pattern of repetition that Hughes uses in “Dream Variations” performs multiple functions. The third line of the first stanza shows the speaker wishing “to whirl and to dance,” and the third line of the second stanza changes this to “Dance! Whirl! Whirl!” The repetition of the word “whirl,”