Dreams
by Langston Hughes
Hold 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.
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.
Now complete a practice post for this poem!
You will earn a class participation grade for completing a practice post that responds to the 3-part prompt.
You will earn a class participation grade for completing a practice post that responds to the 3-part prompt.
J.P.
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The speaker is not addressed specifically in the poem, but they sound like they believe in dreams in a world where they are not utilized. Whom the speaker is addressing is also a mystery, but I speculate that he/she is speaking to the reader, to encourage or teach him/her. The poem is most likely set in a place where imagination is not very prevalent, and people only think of what they think is possible; the entire poem is proof of this, as the speaker explains why dreaming could actually be good, rather than just wishful thinking.
MT
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I believe that the speaker of the poem is someone that once had a dream, but let them go and stopped believing they would come true. The voice in the poem is trying to express to the reader the pain and negativity that letting go of dreams inflict. I think the reader is anyone that has a dream, because the voice is trying to convince the reader to keep dreaming no matter what. I believe the setting is somewhere sad, because since the voice is regretful and sad that they let go of their dreams, they would be in a sad place. "Life is a barren field / Frozen with snow" (Hughes). These lines describe somewhere sad and gloomy, so I believe the voice is expressing what life is like after you let go of dreams. The author uses metaphors as a major part in this poem, expressing what its like to not have dreams. "Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly" (Hughes). Since the reader does not know how it feels to not have dreams, the author uses things that the readers can relate to, because they might know what that looks like. The use of metaphors causes people to understand the impact of dreams, or the absence of them.
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In Langston Hughes' poem, Dreams, the voice describes what it is like to have abandoned the dreams and hopes of someone's lives.
PS
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The speaker of this poem uses something that isn't really in any person because there's no person in this poem. The speaker is probably speaking to another person and maybe describing a dream to them. "Hold fast to dreams, For when dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow." (Langston Hughes).
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"Dreams" by Langston Hughes is all about a dream. Dreams that are meant to roam free and go to places out of this world. Dreams shouldn't be limited and what not. He relates dreams to a broken winged bird for some reason I don't know why, but he does.
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Honestly, I don't like this poem. It's short which means there aren't a lot of thought you could interpret it from. The poems about a dream, but since it doesn't really expand on a specific dream, it's only a dream. When I'm suppose to answer a question on what this poem means, I could only write "a dream" because that's the only thing it's about. It's sort of an annoying poem and I don't really like the set up of it and the poem didn't catch my attention and I did not find it interesting at all. Therefore, I did not enjoy it.
EN
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I think that the speaker of this poem is someone who lost their dream and wrote about it. I think this poem is directed toward everyone because I think the speaker is trying to persuade us to follow our dreams. There is no specific setting but the speaker does mention a barren field covered with snow. The poem also mentions a broken winged bird and I think of the beach because I think of seagulls. I definitely see imagery in this poem. I imagine a "field frozen with snow" and I imagine a "broken winged bird". Those literary devices impacted the poem a lot because the poem made more sense with them.
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The title of this poem is "Dreams" by Langston Hughes. The main idea of this poem is that dreams should never die. The mood of this poem is sad but it also persuades the audience to never let their dream die. In a way it's happy too. When they say "Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go life is a barren field frozen with snow" The poet uses examples to show how bad it would be to lose your dream. It ties in with the mood.
H.F.
ReplyDeletePart 1: I think the speaker is a person who has been through a lot of struggles in life. The speaker is addressing that life is tough and cold. In the poem he says,"Life is a barren field, frozen with snow" (Hughes 1). I can tell the poem is set in a cold, wide open place. In the quote above, the author had mentioned the words frozen and snow. This poem identifies broken dreams and the cold which ties in with cold sad weather.
Part 2: The title of the poem makes a lot of sense, "Dreams" by Langston Hughes. The main idea of the poem is about broken dreams. The third and fourth line say, "Life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly" (Hughes 1). He is saying that life is hard and with something stopping you or bringing you down will not let you achieve your dreams. The mood of the poem is a sad mood sense the poem is about broken dreams. By line six Hughes is saying,"For when dreams go"(Hughes 1). the author is giving up at this part of the poem.
SP
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In the poem, "Dreams", by Langston Hughes, his voice is very soft and sad. The author is discussing how dreams can sometimes fade, and that can be extremely disappointing. The speaker is addressing anyone who has dreams and he suggests that the audience follows their dreams. When it come to the setting of this poem, it is not specifically identified. But, the author uses imagery in lines seven through eight; "Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow" (Hughes). This quote displays imagery by describing where dreams go to die.
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Langston Hughes' poem, "Dreams" is about how people should hold on to their dreams, and how if you aren't hopeful about your dreams, they can eventually fade. The mood of this poem is sad but hopeful. "Hold fast to dreams...." (Hughes). This quote shows how the author was really trying to persuade the audience to hold on to their dreams. The tone of the poem is very simple and relaxed along with using devices such as persuasion. The theme of the poem is being able to hold on to your dreams, and don't give up on them.
T.A.D
ReplyDeletePart 1: the speaker of the poem is Langston Hughes, he is addressing us, the readers. the setting of the poem in my opinion is anywhere that you want the setting to be because the author does not really focus on the setting. this poem uses a lot of figurative language such as imagery, and example of this is "life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly (Langston Hughes)" when you read this you kind of think and visualize a bird with a broken wing trying to fly but it can't. this could also be an example of a metaphor because it is comparing two things without using like or as.
JA
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I think the speaker of this poem is a person who wishes they still have dreams. I think the speaker is trying to address someone who stopped believing. I believe the setting would be someone's bedroom because the poem says "Hold fast to dreams" (Hughes). When you dream, or when you set goals for yourself, you usually are in your room. When you don't want to let go of your dreams, it would occur in a place you're comfortable in. The poem expresses metaphor when it says "Life is a broken-winged bird" (Hughes). This is a metaphor because it is comparing life to a broken-winged bird without using "like" or "as."
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The poem Dreams by Langston Hughes is a short but incredible poem about never letting go of the goals you have planned for yourself. This poem's mood is regret. The poem states "For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow" (Hughes). This makes me think of regret for letting go of dreams. It shows how life is useless if you don't have anything to achieve in life. I think the tone of this poem would be hope.
JT
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The speaker of the poem uses third person and is talking to what seems someone who is looking to them for advice. The speaker references a "barren field / frozen with snow" (Hughes) which could infer that he is in a frozen field. This poem uses the literary device of the metaphor. He says "life is a broken-winged bird / that cannot fly" (Hughes) which shows that when someone's dreams die, they lose their purpose.
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"Dreams," by Langston Hughes, is a poem about how if you lose sight of your dream, then you almost lose your purpose in life. The mood of the poem appears to be inspirational. The line that is repeated, "Hold fast to dreams," (Hughes) seems to be advice that the speaker is giving to people.
NG
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the speaker of the poem uses first person and addresses any reader of the poem. Because the speaker is talking to the reader from his point of view, he makes it sound like his giving advice on dream chasing. The poem has a mood is very calm or peaceful. The topic of the poem is dreams they kind of make give it a peaceful feeling. However the way he describes the dreams gives it a sad feeling. "Life is a broken-winged bird". This statement gives it a sad mood because it is described as a bird who cant fly which is depressing. This statement can also be imagery. It creates the image of a bird trying to fly in my mind. This imagery helps the poems mood of sad or depressing. Because the bird cant fly it is sad and cannot get its dreams.
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The title of the poem is Dreams by Langston Hughes. The main idea of the poem is that you cant loose sight of your dreams in life. The poet is trying to say that if you loose your dreams that life will be very hard or sad. The poem has a mood of sad or depressing. "Life is a broken-winged bird", it shows that life can be hard if you give up on your dreams.
DC
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The speaker of the poem uses first person and addressing the reader of the poem. The poem is basically giving advice about this topic. In this case, it would be to hold on to your dreams. One type of literary device the author uses is a metaphors. The metaphor the author uses is "Life is a barren field"(Hughes). The author is basically saying that life is empty as a barren field. The setting of the poem is possibly in an open field covered in snow. In the poem, the author states, "Life is a barren field, covered in snow"(Hughes).
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The poem "Dreams", by Langston Hughes, is a short poem explaining how one should follow their dreams. The author states in the poem "Hold fast to dreams"(Hughes).
PK
ReplyDelete-dreams are essential to our lives.
-it uses analogies like a bird and a barren field that are useless and relate them to a world with no dreams; useless.
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The speaker of the poem is someone who treasures "dreaming" and believes that dreams are an essential part in his/her life. The voice is telling someone to treasure their dreams. The speaker says, "Hold fast to dreams" (Hughes). By saying this, the speaker is encouraging the reader to not take advantage of their dreams because in the long run, they do have a big impact on one's life. While reading the poem I imagined a bird with broken wings and a barren field that was buried under piles of snow. The speaker was trying to get the idea across the reader that a bird with broken wings is useless, as well as a barren field that is covered in snow. A bird is known for it's capability to fly, if you take away it's wings, there's is not much to it. The speaker is using this as an analogy to a life with no dreams, inferring that without dreams life is as useless and a bird with broken wings.
CC
ReplyDeletePART 1: The speaker in the poem is never specifically identified, and never addresses any specific audience or setting. The poem focuses singularly on the concept/view being portrayed. The work consists entirely of repetition, as the second half of the poem is merely mimicking the first half with new imagery and metaphor replacing old. Repetition occurs directly when the phrase "Hold fast to dreams" is said in both the first and fifth lines.
PART 2: The poem "Dreams" by Langston Hughes instructs the reader to not let go of their dreams, or aspirations in life in order to avoid a chilling and meaningless life. The mood of the poem is difficult to interpret as a result of it's small length. (Go on to explain how it could be viewed as either light-hearted and optimistic or pessimistic and worrisome.)
PART 3: Look, a stereotypical dream poem. In fact, this looks pretty original, I think it might be the first of thousands of cliché "hold on to your dreams" poems. It doesn't even look like he wrote a whole poem, it looks like he wrote two separate small poems then put them right next to each other. The rhymes aren't exactly that clever, and the poem as a whole looks like it was written for a language arts poetry unit by a snobby high school girl.
Jo C.
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ReplyDeletePart 1: the voice of the poem is the poet Langston Hughes. He is addressing anyone who has a dream. anyone who can hold on to their dream can achieve it is what he is saying. the setting of this poem is a barren field that could be covered with snow. for example, he says, " life is a barren field frozen with snow", is proof that their is the setting. this evidence also helps the poem by showing that their will be obstacles in your way when trying to achieve your dream. the poet also uses imagery in this poem for example when he says, "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken - winged bird that cannot fly", he is using imagery by saying to hold on to dreams and how life is a broken - winged bird that cannot fly.
ReplyDeletePart 2: the poem dreams by Langston Hughes (bell rings did not get to continue...)