The Slave's Dream Response Essay

People really do not understand how slaves live their life during plantation times. They experience some real gruesome things. They are most of the time alienated from the family because of plantations workers. Readers start to think how Longfellow, a white man, can convey a slave’s dream. Slaves had to escape from evil and strict slave owners. Many readers would pick up that dreams are to be a person’s rapid thoughts while sleep. Longfellow did not incorporate a dream in this poem, but he did incorporate good use of figurative language.
Longfellow expressed a slave’s dream through diction in this poem. He expressed that the slaves were happy in their home. “In the mist of the shadow of sleep, he saw his native land.” (Longfellow) The slave felt at home when he was sleep because he dreamed of a way to make peace. The author also showed how he dreamed of his family. …Once more a king he strode…He saw once more his dark-eyed queen, among her children stand they clasped his neck, they kissed his cheek, they held him by the hand!” (Longfellow) the slave is dreaming of his family and what they will be like when he sees them. This illustrates how he dreams to be home with his family. In ways the author confirms the fact that there is a better hope because of the dream displayed in this poem through diction.

Longfellow gives you an idea about concrete imagery. Concrete imagery is used to see something in detail that you want to happen in your life. A person who desires to reduce to a specific weight uses an imagery of stepping on the scales and seeing the exact weight he or she desires to be. (Imagery) The best way to tell a story about something that has occurred is to experience it and go through it yourself. There is one sentence he tried to express imagery. “His breast was bare, his mattered hair was buried in the sand.” (Longfellow) When a readers reads this line, the first thought is, what is he trying to exhibit? It seems as if that the slave owner was beating the slave and that is what happen after the beating. The author was not good at painting a picture for the poem to let readers know that it was something he experience but not by stories heard.

Longfellow used another figurative language device. "At night he heard the lion roar, and the hyena scream, and it passed like a glorious roll of drums…" (Longfellow). The author used a metaphor and he was explaining that the loud screams were horrible. "…his lifeless body lay a worn-out fetter…" (Longfellow). Obviously in this line it could also be referred to a slave being beaten. “Through the triumph of his dream” (Longfellow) This line makes everything confusing, because how you go from everything being a pain to it being the happy part of your dream.

Everyone deserves happiness in life. No one should be deprived of it. The Slave’s Dream depicts a tale of a slave and his dream of a better tomorrow. The days he went through it all and the days that would make him happy.

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1.) In this essay, Lincoln should have let his audience know what the war was and who they were fighting for. He also should have conveyed what issues are important to out country and what we could benefit from such as our economy, healthcare, and jobs. There was also, during this name they made note of which help made this nation. He should have mentioned ways the people can honor those who fought in the war.

2.) “The government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish.” This statement was letting everyone know that everything that happens in our government was made for us and shown by our actions. This sentence conveyed pathos because he wanted to get the audience attention and reach for their hearts and let them know how important it is. The effect it had was probably a very important statement that everyone supported. It expressed sorrow because Lincoln was talking about the deceased.

3.) The Gettysburg address was written to address the people the redefines purpose of the union in fighting the civil war. The Declaration of Independence was written to announce and explain the separation from Britain. Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused from the Declaration of Independence and redefined the civil war, as a struggle not merely for the union, but as a new birth of freedom that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states rights were no longer dominant.

4.) In Lincoln’s speech, he got straight to the point, but it was still vague and short. I have heard speeches where people had to persuade a group of people to react to something. The Declaration of Independence used persuasive techniques to show how they were separating from Britain’s rule.

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