LET NO ONE STEAL YOUR DREAM
Let no one steal your dreams
Let no one tear apart
The burning of ambition
That fires the drive inside your heart.
Let no one steal your dreams
Let no one tell you that you can't
Let no one hold you back
Let no one tell you that you won't
Let no one tell you that you can't
Let no one hold you back
Let no one tell you that you won't
Set your sights and keep them fixed
Set your sight on high
Let no one steal your dreams
Your only limit is the sky
Let no one steal your dreams
Follow your heart
Follow your soul
For only when you follow them
Will you feel truly whole
Follow your heart
Follow your soul
For only when you follow them
Will you feel truly whole
Set your sight and keep them fixed
Set your sight on high
Let no one steal your dreams
Your only limit is the sky
Analysis and Review of the poem by Okoro Amarachi Anastasia.
An inspiring and instructive poem written by Paul Cookson in dream. It's a poem of five stanza with rhyme and rythme. The tone is lively and persuasive. The language is simple, comprehensive and narrative. The speaker sounds he's giving instruction or counsel.
The poem with an instruction “let no one steal dream” which resonate through out the poem. In this stanza, the speaker reveals us what exactly he meant with remaining lines of the stanza, pointing the drive of our ambitions that comes from passion/heart. The second stanza continue with the same that instructs our young generation, telling them “let no one steal your dream”. There is emphasis in this emphasis as the speaker used the words “let no one” through out the stanza. At this point, the speaker do not want his reader to feel discouraged, or unable to achieve their dream.
The third stanza open another point Which states “Set your sights and keep them fixed”. It simply means that she focus be highly motivated, don’t settle for, don’t be mediocre, for the limit is your sky. The fourth stanza, made it clear that we should follow our heart. Here, our decision when it come our life, dream and purpose should be based on conviction from our heart. Our generation needs to follow their path and it should self- willed. Finally the poet ended the poem with instructive line which we seen in the poem. Personally, it poem hold a great value in the lives of the youths.
Poetice devices used in the poem:
Repetition: in the poem, there are constants re-occurance of the word/phrase/ statement such as; Let no one steal your dreams, Set your sight and keep them fixed, Set your sight on high, Your only limit is the sky.
Hyperbole: in the poem, we have exaggeration statements such as; Set your sight on high, The burning of ambition.
Alliteration: there are repetition of consonant sounds such as; Set your sight and keep them fixed and Set your sight on high.
Metaphor: the use of metaphor to compare and make emphasis is seen in the poem “Your only limit is the sky”