Dreams by Langston Hughes is a short, two stanza poem about what dreams are when you abandon them. With a sorrowful tone, Langston expresses the theme, "Never give up on your dreams." Using figures of speech such as metaphors and personification, he brings imagery into the short poem.
Langston Hughes uses personification as his first form of figurative language. This can be found in the first stanza on the second line. Langston gives dreams a human like ability as he says, "if dreams die," meaning that dreams could possibly die as we do. He further explains how life becomes meaningless if you give up on your dreams and let them die. This is where the sorrowful tone comes in and begins the