"Dream Variations" section

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The "Dream Variations" section is a part of Langston Hughes’s poetry collection The Weary Blues that centers on themes of racial identity, longing, and the dream of freedom.

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instanceOf part of a poetry collection
poetry section
addressesAudience general readership
associatedWith Langston Hughes’s early career
The Weary Blues
surface form: The Weary Blues (poetry collection)
author Langston Hughes
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstPublicationMedium book
genre African-American poetry
hasForm short poem sequence
hasTitleElement "Dream Variations"
surface form: Dream Variations
intendedPerspective African-American speaker
language English
literaryForm lyric poetry
literaryPeriod 20th-century American literature
medium print
movement Harlem Renaissance
partOf The Weary Blues
theme Black subjectivity
aspiration for equality
dream of freedom
escape from racial oppression
hope
longing
night and day imagery
racial identity
rest and peace
usesLiteraryDevice imagery
repetition
symbolism

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The Weary Blues hasCollectionSection "Dream Variations" section