Oppression
Oppression - meaning Summary
Dreams Silenced, Resilience Remains
Hughes presents a brief, plain meditation on enforced silence and hope. He begins with stark lines that say dreams and songs are denied to their makers under oppressive conditions. The poem then shifts to a resilient, optimistic assertion: though darkness and brutality may prevail, the dream returns and the song will break free of its confinement. It frames oppression as temporary and human creativity as ultimately insistent.
Read Complete AnalysesNow dreams Are not available To the dreamers, Nor songs To the singers. In some lands Dark night And cold steel Prevail But the dream Will come back, And the song Break Its jail.
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