"Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes and "Hurt Hawks" by Robinson Jeffers are two very different poems. However, like most poems, when you take a deeper look inside them, you can easily tell that they are similar too. Poems can be interpreted into countless numbers of different ways. A poem can mean anything one can imagine it to mean - there is no right or wrong answer. You, the reader, make the poem come alive. "Hurt …showed first 75 words of 703 total…

…showed last 75 words of 703 total…to help them because they don't have any strength left to help themselves and it is too late for dreams. On the other hand, in "Dream Deferred" we learn that people who have forgotten their dream have lost faith and may never get to find out what could have been. God can't help them with until they learn to help themselves but as long as there is life there is hope, unlike a dying hawk.