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    In the poemDreams”‚ langston Hughes uses imagery to convey that life would be useless without dreams. First of all‚ Hughes uses metaphor in the first stanza to show how life would be meaningless without dreams. The narrator states that “Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly” (3-4). The metaphor that was used in this sentence‚ means that there is no point of the bird if it doesn’t have wings because the purpose of the is to fly. Then‚ the author compares life with a broken-winged bird that

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    Dreams by Langston Hughes is a free verse poem with an abcb rhyme scheme. In the poemHughes uses poetic devices to show dreams are as important as lives. The poem shows a theme of reflection of one’s life. To hold onto your dreams as if they were your last drop of hope. Without dreams‚ one’s life would seem empty and dull. Hughes uses a mixture of metaphors and personification throughout his poem. Hughes uses metaphors to show how useless life would be without dreams: “Life is a broken-winged

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    Feito What Happens to a Dream Deferred? What Happens to a Dream Deferred? The poemWhat happens to a dream deferred?” by Langston Hughes leaves the reader wondering as to what happens to their dreams that were never fulfilled. It causes the reader to take a good look at themselves because it causes the reader to really wonder. Was an effort really made to achieve their dreams? Were the dreams attached to goals? Why weren’t the dreams ever

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    Dreams: Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was born on February 1‚ 1902 in Joplin‚ Missouri. Hughes was probably the most well-known literary force during the Harlem Renaissance. He was one of the first known black artists to stress a need for his generations to embrace the black jazz culture of the 1920s‚ as well as the cultural roots in Africa and not so distant memory of enslavement in the United States. In November 1924‚ Hughes finished his book of poetry‚ subsequently he wrote his second novel

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    Langston Hughes and The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was a huge cultural movement for the culture of African Americans. Embracing the various aspects of art‚ many sought to envision what linked black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each other. Langston Hughes was one of the many founders of such a cultural movement. Hughes was very unique when it came to his use of jazz rhythms and dialect in portraying the life of urban blacks through his poetry‚ stories‚ and plays

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    Analysis of a Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes This poem by Langston Hughes is a very complicated. In it the speaker paints a picture of what might happen to someone’s dream if it is postponed too long. This idea is the overall theme of the poem and it is what unifies and connects each line to the poem as a whole. There are also indirect references that this is not only the dream of an individual‚ but an entire race’s struggle to achieve peace and liberation. This poem consists of a series

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    Background: On a hot and humid day‚ my course at Columbia University toured Harlem through the route described in Langston Hughes’s‚ Theme for English B. In his poemHughes describes his walk from City College of New York to his home in Harlem. When we walked down the steps from City College to Harlem‚ just as Hughes did‚ I realized Hughes’s prevalent battle; he came from an underprivileged background to attend a university where he was the only African American student in his class. Going down

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    "Doorknobs" Langston Hughes is considered by many readers to be the most significant black poet of the twentieth century. Except for a few examples‚ all his poems are about social injustice in America. The somber tone of his writing often reflected his mood. Race relations were present in almost his whole career‚ following him from his first poem to his last. The poem "Doorknobs" was written in 1961 after his subpoena to appear before Senator McCarthy for subversive activities. Although many

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    Renaissance‚ Langston Hughes becomes a voice. In his writing and poetry he spoke with the word I. “I” representing the African American culture. During this time period the African Americans were experiencing extreme hardship. Life was difficult for them. Throughout his literature he writes about the concept of dreams‚ but he also digs deeper into the souls of the African Americans and spreads hope to all of his people‚ especially during that specific time period of the Harlem Renascence. During this era

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    under the pain or persevere under the decades of mistreatment as written in his resilient toned poem‚ Mother to Son. The effectiveness of the poem is emphasized on the unresolved conflict of the long-postponed and frustrated dream of African Americans. This can be seen as‚ “five of the six answers to the opening questions are interrogative rather than declarative sentences.” As the whole poem is rhetorically structured‚ it questions the “white race” for their treatment of the African American but

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