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"I Dreamed a Dream" and "As I Grew Older" Are two beautiful poems about Having Hopes and Dreams, but in these two stories there are similarities and differences. In the poem "I Dreamed a Dream" It starts out by explaining how the character from the musical Les Miserables, Fantine has dreamed a dream, and she is happy about her dream and how wonderful it is. "I dreamed a dream in time gone by, when hope was high and life worth living" she says in the beginning. Towards the end of the poem her dreams starts getting ripped apart and she explains how life has killed her dream. “So different now from what it seemed now life has killed my dream I dreamed." In "As I Grew Older" The poem starts as the poet Langston Hughes explains His dream and how its right in front of him, but then a wall rises in front of him. He's unable to get to his dream because of this wall and he's lying in the darkness of the wall." In front of me, Bright like a sun-- my dream. And then the wall rose, rose slowly, slowly, …show more content…

In the beginning of “I Dreamed a Dream” the author starts out by talking about how the character is happy and talking about her dream but then her dream gets ripped apart and killed by life. “I dreamed that love would never die I dreamed that God would be forgiving… I had dream that life would be so different from this hell I’m living so differently.” In “As I Grew Older” the author explains how there is a dream, but it is blocked by the wall which reaches top the sky and causes darkness but he breaks through the wall at the end of the poem. The differences between the two are that the first poem doesn’t have as much imagery as the second. In the second poem which “As I Grew Older” the author explains how the wall is rising and everything is dark until they break through the wall and gets to the dream. Also, you can’t really tell where the setting is in the first poem “I Dreamed a

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In Kim Addonizio’s poem, 31-Year Old Lover, Addonizio introduces two characters, a 31-year old man and an older woman. At first I thought the man was her lover but really the 31-year old man is just someone who has a nice body as Addonizio describes in the poem and as the author portrays the older woman in the poem as being young and it is her way to contrast it with the process of the woman becoming old and weary. The last line in the poem Addonizio says to do with aging is, “I am going to have it back the only way I can” (1398), and it seems the only way she can get her youth back is trying to take his youth by sleeping with him. Addonizio, views the male body in a sexual way that as Addonizio quotes, “When he takes off his clothes/ the milky, lubricious of butter being unwrapped/ when its take from the fridge still hard”. (1398)

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