The poem by Langston Hughes, Dream Variation, has to do with the poet's dream to live one way, but having reality dictate a different way of life (a variation) of the dream. He uses the framework of music to express this theme of a dream changed and mutated from its original tune, much in the way that a theme and variations is utilized in classical and jazz pieces.
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The poem explains that in the first stanxa the poet wants to live a carefree and a joyous world where the white people treat her with respect and as an equal. The tone in the first stanza is positive... As the title is dream variation .the reality is not like her dream . She has to work the while day for the white following commands . The tone in the second stanza is negative and sad
