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Dream Variations By Langston Hughes
The poem “Dream variations” by Langston Hughes is written in a free verse format. The organization inside the stanzas propose music and dance. Hughes’s words are structured between stress and unstressed syllables, which creates a sense of musicality throughout his poem.
Upon inspecting the title it suggests that Hughes is trying to communicate dance and music. In the third and fourth stanza they talk about that Hughes wishes to whirl his arms, to spin and to dance all day until the evening. The second stanza includes the same thematic. He wishes to dance until the dark comes. This poems theme is clearly the joy of dance and the pleasing sound of music that he can follow its rhythm. One of the many techniques Hughes uses is the consonance

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