Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like a rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over
Like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
What does this poem get at or mean?
Poetry: Questions for God - Poetry - Helium::
57 articles on Poetry: Questions for God. Questioning God Some will say "you shouldn't question God." But I say "yes, I should.
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The deferred dream that poet Langston Hughes was writing about was the dream of freedom and equality for black Americans. Hughes grew up in the early 20th century when many former slaves and slave owners were still alive, when lynching was a common occurrence, and when Jim Crow laws restricted African-Americans to the status of second-class citizens. The poem asks how people respond to oppression and denial of basic human rights.
Mother's Question, Christiand poetry::
Mother's Question. I think as the night draws nigh. Of an old house on the hill, Of a yard all wide and blossom-starred. Where the children played at will.
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Albert Gelpi on postmodern poetry::
Jul 18, 2007 Marjorie Perloff's excellent essay on language poetry tentatively raises the question of whether, with the function of the speaker and of
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pursue your dreams?
i think meaning what will happen in life .....will it turn up bad or good....happy times n sad times ,when ,where why? LIFE
It's at the same time good and bad. It's saying life is like a roller coaster. Sometimes up sometimes down. It's just the way of life! Paper 2 : Section II Question 5 - Poetry::
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AP SPANISH LITERATURE 2007 SCORING GUIDELINES::
File Format: PDF/Adobe AcrobatQuestion 1: Poetry Analysis. Note: Student responses are quoted verbatim and may contain grammatical errors. Overview. This question assessed students’
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It means that if you hope desperately for something but must wait for it, there are different outcomes: atrophying of the hope, the hoper becoming neurotic, deep burial of the hope and covering it over with niceness, or maybe the hope will just weigh the hoper down. Or possibly the hope (dream) will come out in sudden violent form--as the couplet at the end implies.
It's one of Hughes' best poems, and probably is about the hopes of African Americans to achieve their dreams.
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