What is the purpose of a dream? Many people across time with diverse backgrounds have asked this very question. The excerpt from “Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and “Harlem” by Langston Hughes are very similar in the sense they are both about dreams, however, they differ when it comes to their approach to dreams. These two poems have many differences, such as, in the excerpt from “Life is a Dream” by Pedro Calderón de la Barca states, indubitably, that life is a dream. He says you dream your whole life. However, Langston Hughes asks “What happens to a dream deferred?” This indicates that dreams get deferred. That is a different message than what Calderón pushes. Life does not get deferred, it continues regardless of the situation.
