With a hopeful tone, and a subjective, personal style; ‘I Dream A World’ by Langton Hughes explores racial and moral boundaries. The persona of the poem dreams that every single person; no matter what nationality, colour or religion is equal:
‘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 persona wants the people of the world, to be grateful, ‘where greed no longer saps the soul’; and happy,
‘Where wretchedness will hang its head
And Joy like a pearl.’
He dreams that one day, the earth will be perfect, or better, in all these ways.
By Annabelle
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