"I Dream A World"- Blog 3

The poem “I Dream a world” by Langton Hughes explores moral and racial boundaries. The moral boundaries being greed consuming our world and the racial boundaries being a world in which black or white can live in harmony.

The persona has used the rhyme scheme: abcb to make the poem sound like it belongs.

A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,

The style of this poem is subjective and personal as it shows what type of world Langton Hughes desires. He has made this ambitious statement clear by using repetition at the beginning of the first and second stanza.

I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its path adorn.
I dream a world where all sweet freedom’s way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day

A simile has been used to differentiate a positive (happy) and negative (sad) emotional state.

Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,

By Tiffani.Mungoven