All poems have a meaning to it and a meaning is really just the theme with a lesson. Poems which play a big role in society today because, songs and different types of writings are being published and shared to the world. Either singing a lesson or teaching one because, poems can be songs, writings, haiku, mostly any type of writing. All the types of writing means something. The two poems I'm comparing are Hall of Fame by The Script and As I. Grew Older by Langston Hughes and both of the poems have the same meaning, just different words and style. Hall of Fame is written into a song and is played by The Script which is a band. The other poem is As I Grew Older which is in poem form and written by Langston Hughes. Both poems are trying to say
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Grew Older it starts off talking about the person's dream. Saying "I have almost forgotten my dream." The person must have been through some tough times and couldn't focus on their dream to be someone or something, such as growing up. The name of the poem says it all. That the wall of adulthood is pushing their dream further away. The poem is talking about how something got in their way of becoming whom they wanted to be by saying "My dream. And then the wall rose, rose slowly, slowly, between me and my dream." The person is saying that something was blocking them from their dream. That the wall was a border keeping the dream far away from him. Then the person's life went black, the dream was his light. The poem becomes a little deep and sad while the author is still explaining that he is in the dark watching his shadow. What it means when they say shadow is that the person is not remembered by others, there is only a shadow. He was just watching his dream slip away right before his eyes. Until, he wasn't ready to throw away his dreams. He started noticing something. "My hands! My dark hands! Break through the wall! Find my dream!" The person was determined to get his dream back and to get the light of their life back. "To smash this night, To break this shadow." Finding their dream back would break the shadow and show people who they are.
In conclusion, these poems are alike by telling us the same theme but using different ways of writing. They
Grew Older it starts off talking about the person's dream. Saying "I have almost forgotten my dream." The person must have been through some tough times and couldn't focus on their dream to be someone or something, such as growing up. The name of the poem says it all. That the wall of adulthood is pushing their dream further away. The poem is talking about how something got in their way of becoming whom they wanted to be by saying "My dream. And then the wall rose, rose slowly, slowly, between me and my dream." The person is saying that something was blocking them from their dream. That the wall was a border keeping the dream far away from him. Then the person's life went black, the dream was his light. The poem becomes a little deep and sad while the author is still explaining that he is in the dark watching his shadow. What it means when they say shadow is that the person is not remembered by others, there is only a shadow. He was just watching his dream slip away right before his eyes. Until, he wasn't ready to throw away his dreams. He started noticing something. "My hands! My dark hands! Break through the wall! Find my dream!" The person was determined to get his dream back and to get the light of their life back. "To smash this night, To break this shadow." Finding their dream back would break the shadow and show people who they are.
In conclusion, these poems are alike by telling us the same theme but using different ways of writing. They