I dream a world Flashcards
Tone
Hopeful
Poet will discuss
What kind of world he wishes the world to become
Hopeful Tone
He expresses his personal thoughts and dreams of a boundaryless world
It has an echo of
Martin luther kings repetition of i have a dream
L2
Scorn
Dislike , disrespect
L3
Personification “ love “
The place of the pastor in a church and brings a religious element into the poem
L4 “ adorn “
Decorate
Adorn
Personification
Just as African - American mothers and grandmothers would beautify their gardens
Peace
Hughes imagines “peace “ decorating the entire world with itself
L5
Connotation
Freedom will know who deserves it and will grant it to only those who earn freedom
L6
Hughes says that he dreams of a world in which everyone will both want and have freedom
L7 saps
Destroy and weaken
connotation
where greed no longer controls a person
L8
avarice
insatiable ( impossible to satisfy )
desire to hoard and gain wealth
blights
Spoils , damages Greed will no longer control human kind
The narrator dreams of
A world in which greed will not rule the lives of people in the world
L10
Most majority white educational institutions workplaces and entertainment canters did not allow
L11
Bounties
Rewards
Bounties
All races will have equal opportunities for success
The narrator dreams of a world
where the race of a person does not matter and every person in the world is free
L13 wretchedness
Miserable
Personification
L14 Simile
Used to compare the presence of joy of a pearl
L16
Last line emphasizes that such a world can only exist in a dream vision
