The slave's dream

                             
                                           The Slave's dream
                                                                            
                                                                          By – H. W. Longfellow
Poet Introduction : -

         H.W. Longfellow ( 1807 – 1882 ) was an American poet and educator. He was studied in Cambridge university of U.S. Longfellow was born in Portland.

Poetry Introduction : -

        The slave's dream is a beautiful poem by H.W. Longfellow. Which depicts the poet's support to abolish slavery. This poem was one of eight poems include in a book entitled “ poems on slavery that” that Longfellow published in 1842. Although Longfellow is much better known for happier and more inspirational poetry.

Analysis : -

       This is a poem about a slave and the circumstances that he goes through in a foreign land. The slave is portrayed physically at a rise filed because of extreme tiredness. He falls flat on the ground and he starts drinking about his native land. The phrases “ Ungathered rise” and sickle show that he fell on the land while working because of extreme weakness. His hair ware braid in sand he was almost in the shadow of his native land.
 
   The second stanza the dream takes over. The realistic situation and he goes imaginatively in the land of his dream where the loudly Niger river flows and he again started feeling as if he was a king.

       In the third stanza the dream further extend into his family as he start missing his “ Dark eyed queen” and his children and the dream had such intensity that the eye drops started foaling on sand.

          In the fourth stanza he unlike his real situation starts seeing him self as a free man because we can see him riding the horse at raped speed and enjoying the ride.

             In the fifth stanza he is shown foaling the flamingos around the tamarind field. While going through same. He in his subconscious start viewing his “ caffrehuts”.

       The next stanza is a sequential one where in he Liston to the lion's roar, the Hyman's scream. The noise of the crushing reeds and the victorious sound of drums.

          In the seven stanza talks about the forest and the desert and how he feels libraped in his native land.

          The last stanza comes back to the physical condition of the slave. Who is lying on the filed absolutely sensation less because he does not even feel the whip of the driver or the burning heat of the day. We can see that his soul has attained freedom. His body in real life was never allowed to be free but God made him free from the Bard wires of mortality.

Conclusion : -

          The last stanza of the poem shows liberation as the only means of freedom for the slaves. The last stanza it is very touching to hard slaves achieve the dream. He will not feel the pain of the whip and burning heat of the day, his spirit is finally realized free from his haggard body.

        The Rhyming is ABCBDB. The figures of speech is climax used in this poem.