A Dream Deferred - Poetry Explication
Title: A Dream Deferred - Poetry Explication
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 927 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Dream Deferred - Poetry Explication
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 927 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
"A Dream Deferred"
What happens to a dream deferred? (a)
Does it dry up (b)
like a raisin in the sun? (c)
Or fester like a sore- (d)
And then run? (c)
Does it stink like rotten meat? (e)
Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet? (e)
Maybe it just sags (f)
like a heavy load. (g)
Or does it explode? (g)
Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was born into
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eme range from foreboding to anger to gloom, creating a sense of each in the reader. Hughes' poems are an effective commentary on the experiences of blacks in Harlem and the dream that they share: a dream that, though deferred, still exists.
Works Cited
Bailey, A. Peter and Edith J. Slade. Harlem Today: A Cultural and Visitors Guide - Online Edition.
Hughes, James Langston. Available online: http://longman.awl.com/englishpages/lit_wkbk_hughes.htm