"Dream Variations" by Langston Hughes is a poem full of imagery. In many ways the poem paints colorful pictures in our minds through description. The poem expresses imagery in ways such as the description of African American discrimination, the style of writing, and the meaning of the poem itself. First, "Dream Variations is about the mistreatment of African Americans in the early 20th Century to describe that Langston Hughes uses imagery.”Dream Variations depicts African American scenes; it is also infused with overt Black and White references that invoke the racial discrimination of 1920s America, and paint it as unnatural. This main polarity (or opposite) - black Africa as natural vs. white America as unnatural- is emphasized throughout