EN 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Langston Hughes

• School: York University
• Department: English
• Course: EN 2100
• Professor: Andy Weaver

Document Summary

Poems revolving around social, political and racial problems. Uses enough variation that is not fixed or free ; unrecognizable form. The dream is to live in a color-blind society. The second stanza is a variation; still adhering to the first idea but a little different. More specific and urgent in the second stanza; more certainty. Line 8 uses the term dark to describe speaker, whereas line 17 uses black showing that the speaker is more comfortable with himself. Significance of the repetition of rest - exhaustion from social critique. The second stanza does not repeat the speaker"s dream . The term dream can symbolize the speaker wanting to wake up from this dream. Using a tree as apart of the speaker"s dream: after the civil war, the north rebuilt the south; terrorism reimagining objects of people and dreams (seeing the tree as a place where he can relax rather than be scared)