in his Bio on poem hunter, it talks about Langston’s view on being a black poet. I think this poem has a deeper meaning then what lies at the surface.
I think that if you were to keep your dreams high with the clouds, away from the “too-rough fingers of the world” that they cant take them away from you. Give him all of your dreams and they cannot be shattered. I like that the speaker of the poem is a protector of the dreams. This poem brings me back to before my dreams were tarnished by “the too-rough fingers of the world”, and it gives me hope that maybe some of that magic I learned about is real, and maybe, if I follow the melodies of my heart, I’ll find true happiness. Through this poem, Hughes makes me feel like I did when I was little – when I imagined that I could fly or travel the entire world, and when I was convinced that I would. As we got older, though, it seemed like the dreams we were meant to follow weren’t our own, but society’s. Disney movies taught us to follow our hearts, and we would magically find happiness. It seems as if society teased us with the idea that we could and should do whatever makes us happy. As children we were always told to dream often and pursue whatever made us happy, but that lesson became less and less frequent as we got older. The line, “that I may wrap them in a blue cloud-cloth away from the too-rough fingers of the world” brings a sense of safety and comfort, just as lullabies do. This poem sounds and feels like a lullaby to me.
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