Dreams+JCP+Langston+Hughes+Purpose

The purpose of this poem is to talk about your dreams. It focuses on how people never really fulfill their dreams, but their dreams stay with them forever. The purpose of this poem might also be to convey that you have to decide between dreams and reality. Some people might want to follow their dreams, but might be stopped because they want to support their family. When it talks about a raisin drying up in the sun, it could be referring to how a dream that isn't successful might fade away from a person. The other lines in the poem talk about how dreams stay with a person forever. The focus of this poem is talking about how your dreams will never die.

Good, Joanna, but it's so important with this poem that you examine why the dream could explode. Hughes wants the readers to understand and feel how ignored dreams cause anger and resentment. This could become a dangerous situation and a wake-up call, he might be saying.