DREAMS

Analysis of the poem “DREAM VARIATIONS”:

DREAMS

Langston Hughes was born in 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. He was a poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer and columnist. In the poem “Dream Variation” he talks about the dream. What is a dream? It’s something that somebody wishes to fulfill. Like to fling the “arms wide in some place of the sun”, “to whirl and to dance” all day, and in the night to rest. That is a dream of somebody. A dream very easy to come, true because all the things there are in the nature are free. Example: the sun, the night, the tree.  The speaker of the poem “Dream Variations” in the first stanza  feels overwhelmed and has the desire to realize the dream of throwing their arms  somewhere in the sun, spinning and dancing, then rest under a tree, while the night comes gently falling dark like him or her. However, in the second stanza the speaker shows that it was a dream that has now become reality, he demonstrates that throwing his arms “in the faced the sun”, and orders to dance, spin, the day is now fast, the tree is thin and. Now the night comes tenderly and black like him. The dream is seen at first in the text as something impossible, distant, unreachable, but as it passes from day to night, it appears that everything changes, and it is possible to achieve it because everything in the universe can make it real.

By: Rosânia Santos de Souza