# Let Me Not Lose My Dream explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by Georgia Douglas Johnson.

## What happens

The speaker pleads to hold onto their dream despite overwhelming sorrow, blindness, and the collapse of fortune, invoking higher powers to guard against anguish that threatens to destroy their vision.

## Themes in this chapter

### Hope and Vision for the Future

The entire poem is a plea to preserve a dream, representing a vision for the future against despair.

### Suffering and Resilience

The speaker endures tears, faltering fortune, and anguish while striving to maintain their dream.

## Character check-ins

### Unknown

The speaker who desperately clings to their dream amid tears and turmoil.

### Hope

Implied as the force behind the dream the speaker refuses to lose.

## Key lines

> Let me not lose my dream, e’en though I scan the veil with eyes unseeing through their glaze of tears

Do not let me abandon my dream, even if I look through a blurry veil with tear-filled eyes that cannot see clearly.

_The speaker acknowledges their obscured vision and sorrow but refuses to give up._

> Let me not falter, though the rungs of fortune perish as I fare above the tumult, praying purer air

Do not let me stumble, even as my luck fails while I rise above chaos, hoping for a cleaner atmosphere.

_The speaker seeks strength to continue despite losing material success._

> Hold me, and guard, lest anguish tear my dreams away!

Support and protect me, so that suffering does not rip my dreams from me.

_A direct appeal to higher powers for protection against emotional pain._

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