Dream

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Dreams

By

Langston Hughes

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-

1967)

• Langston Hughes was born on 1

February 1902 in the USA

• He was best known for his poetry

• The Negro Speaks of Rivers, The

Weary Blues, Fine Clothes to the

Jew etc are his well known poems

• He passed away on May 22, 1967

Rhyming words are words that

have the same ending sounds.

Examples of rhyming words are

cat, hat, bat, mat, fat and rat

Rhyming words

Word picture

Word picture a vivid description in writing.

Eg: a broken winged bird

a barren field with snow

WORD PICTURES IN THE

POEM DREAM

The broken winged bird that cannot fly

A barren field frozen with snow

HOLD FAST TO DREAMS

FOR, IF DREAMS DIE

LIFE IS A BROKEN-WINGED BIRD

THAT CANNOT FLY

The first stanza compares a life without dreams to a "broken-winged bird." A broken-winged bird's life has no purpose, much in the same way a life without dreams has no purpose.

HOLD FAST TO DREAMS

FOR, WHEN DREAMS GO

LIFE IS A BARREN FIELD

FROZEN WITH SNOW

The second stanza compares a life without dreams to a "barren field frozen with snow." A field is created for the purpose of providing life. A barren field does not fulfill its purpose. A life is created to give and provide life to others. A life without dreams does nothing.

Barren Land

Frozen land =turned into ice

MY DREAM

How I wish to be

A good cricketer !

How I wish to be

A good batsman!

But my friends.

Find no batsman

In a boy like me.

‘Tom, today you are the opener’

Said my teacher gently

I did open batting

Smartly did I score a fifty.

Slogan

There is nothing like a dream to create the future

You have to dream before your dream can come true