genre: poetry
Dreams: Langston Hughes
Text: Class VIII English, Unit ONE

This is a poem that tells you to hold on to your dream and to catch it fast before its too late. If you don't have a dream then life is a  bird with  broken wing or a barren field. The poet uses simile to express this idea in the poem.
A simile is a type of figurative language that does not mean exactly what it says, that makes a comparision between two otherwise unalike objects or ideas by connesting them with words "like" or "as." Similes allow author to emphasize a  certain characteristic of an object by comparing that object to an unrelated object that is an example of that characteristic.