Here are some links to a few poems I think show a strong connection to the American Dream. Read any or all, and post your thoughts, please. :) If you would like, you could also locate and post a poem or song you think fits our discussion of the American Dream.
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes (What kind of connection do you see between those two poems?)
Let America be America Again by Langston Hughes (This one is a little bit longer, but it is WELL worth the read, especially in connection with our discussion of King's "I Have a Dream Speech.")
A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe (Thanks to Wilson for bringing this one to our attention. What kind of dream do you think Poe was describing?)
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I think there is a common theme among each of these poems. Each writer, (notice some are black and some are white,) are writing of the hypocrasy of the American dream. All are noticing the inconsistancies of a promise that is offered to only a few who fit the definition of American, and therefore the American dream.
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