So I was reading the poem "Dream Variations" by Langston Hughes and I thought it was really interesting that it seems like the tone between the two stanzas is different. The first seems to before the dream whereas the second verse seems to be after the fact... Like the dream has already come true in a sense. Does anyone else get the same feeling? Or is it just me?
Laney
Hmm interesting. I got the impression that he was describing the imagined dream of a different life throughout the entire poem, the second stanza being a variation of the first stanza - thus, "Dream Variations". Thoughts?
ReplyDeleteoohhhhh true that. That makes a lot of sense. I never thought about it like that. I just thought the second stanza was less passive and had less of a mystical feel to it. It seems to me like the second stanza seems like he is more comfortable and he says "that is my dream!" (line 9) whereas that is left out of the second stanza. Nowhere in the second stanza does he talk about it being his dream.
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