Dream Variations (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Langston Hughes
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, United States or Americans, Blacks, Twentieth century, Dreams, Harlem, Dancing or dancers, Light, Night
The Poem
“Dream Variations” (originally “Dream Variation”) consists of two stanzas, the first of nine lines, the second of eight. Its title connects it with one of Langston Hughes’s major themes: dreams, especially the dreams of African Americans.
The variations referred to in the title are those that the second stanza introduces: The first eight lines of stanza 1 correspond closely, line by line, with the eight lines of stanza 2. The first lines of the two stanzas are in fact identical, but thereafter stanza 2 varies from stanza 1, sometimes by the change of...
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