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Langston Hughes' "Dreams"

The Daily Poem
The Daily Poem
Episode • Feb 26 • 4m

Today’s poem plays nicely against Hughes’ more famous meditation on “dreams” (the deferred kind, in “Harlem”). Rather than emphasizing the danger of a dream under pressure, here he stresses the importance of a dream to men and women under pressure. Happy reading.



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