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I think that I have concluded to the point that out of the two poems I have read by Langston Hughes, both have been about dreams and they are not exactly the happy dreams that people image. Both of the poems are kind of about what happens when dreams are let go and how quickly dreams can escape from the dreamer. I think to kind of chine into what I said before with the poem "A Dream Deferred", that to write a poem like this the poet must have gone through something like it before. So with "Dreams", I think that Langston Hughes must have had a dream so close to him, it was basically within reach and then it slipped away. I liked this poem because, along with "A Dream Deferred", it gives the after-math of what happens when something you want really badly, a dream, goes away. For example in "Dreams", Langston Hughes uses examples like a bird that has a broken wing and cannot fly, and life is a barren field, frozen with snow. So I think those examples are takes on what Langston Hughes thinks happens when dreams slip away.