The Writing of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes is a poet who has writing style that can directions. He has the ability to write complex poetry but keep the language simple enough so that anyone can understand what message he is trying to pass on to the reader. Langston Hughes also has the great ability to take a topic and spread it across multiple poems but make all the poems totally different. His poetry also has a beat to it that in some ways that is caused by his use of rhyme and style of writing. Langston Hughes has a writing style that can go in many different directions. He can take a topic and write multiple poems with that same topic. What I noticed about that is that although they are on a similar topic the poems are totally different in meaning or in the story they are telling. I came across 5 poems all with the general thought or subject being dreams. The first poem I read is entitled "Dreams". This poem is a very simply written poem that is straight and to the point. The message is stated in the first line of the poem, "Hold on to dreams". In this I think he is trying to give the reader the same message that most children get from their parents as their growing up. I think this could be like a
Night coming tenderlyBlack like me. When he compares them to something saging or a heavy load he is giving another alternative to the fate of your dreams if you do not go after them. I dream a world where allWill know sweet freedom's way,Where greed no longer saps the soulNor avarice blights our day. I am sure that this poem was influenced by the same racial tensions that influenced the last poem. In reading this it would seem that its purpose was to make a person realize that if you put off dreams one day it will be to late and you may regret it. In this poem there is no message in relation to dreams being crushed. "DREAMS" by Langston HughesHold onto dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is like a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly. Hold fast to dreamsFor when dreams goLife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow. His ability to Say the same thing but yet give such a different message and feeling to the reader shows just a small part of his talents as a writer. Many of his poems are meant to stand on their own with their own meanings. Basically he is saying that if you wait to long to fulfill your dreams they will fade away and die. I am pretty sure that when he wrote this poem that one of the ideas was to give hope to all who read it. When he says that his dream is to fling his arms wide and to dance, I think he is saying he wish he could speak his mind and that prejudiced would just be gone.
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