Interpretation of Poem One - "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

'I dream a world'

The poem 'I dream a world' by Langton Hughes explores racial an moral boundaries that are holding society back.

'Where greed no longer saps the soul,
Nor avarice blights our day.'

'A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties on the earth.'

The persona uses the repetition of 'I dream a world' to make his view on the world clear. The use of simile compares joy the emotion, to a physical pearl. Hughes uses visual imagery to describe what he believes is a peaceful world.

'And joy, like a pearl.'

'Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn.'

by Hayley Bard

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