Poem (Dreams)

 The American poet Langston Hughes wrote the poem Dreams. Here it is:

                                          Dreams

Hold fast to dreams

For if they 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.

The poem consists of two stanzas with four verses each. Each verse consists of four syllables, but the third verse of the first stanza has seven, and the third verse of the second has six. The second and four verses of each stanza rhyme.

Langston Hughes expresses the importance of dreams. He compares the death of dreams to a bird that cannot fly and a barren field of snow. Just like the injured bird and the barren field, a life without dreams is a life that is not complete.