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**Dreams ** **Hold fast to dreams** **For if dreams die** **Life is a broken-winged bird** **that cannot fly.**

 **Hold fast to dreams** **For when dreams go** **Life is a barren field**  **Frozen with snow

-Langston Hughes**

The theme in the first stanza Langston Hughes tells how much we should cherish our dreams. In the second stanza he tells us that we should fight for our dreams because that's all we have. In the first stanza second line die and fly in the last line rhyme.  When we analyzed the poem it was about how much you should cherish your dreams because if you did have them you wouldn't have less of and an imagination**.**

**A metaphor is a figure of of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. Langston Hughes uses a metaphor to show what happens to a life without dreams. For an example in the first stanza second and the third line is describing what life would be like with out dreams.**

Analysis- The poem is about theme, rhyme, and metaphor is to tell us what Langston Hughes likes to right about. The theme is what we do with dreams that we should cherish and have a better imagination if we didn't. Rhyme can help us understand what people are saying or what they want to say. The metaphor in the poem tells or describe what would life be like with out any dreams.

Resource- http://www.scannatoa.org/images/BlackHistoryMonth/QUOTES_Langston%20Hughes.jpg Prentice Hall Literature