Have you ever had a dream that deferred? Both the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, and the play “Fences” by August Wilson are examples about having your dreams deferred. Both texts focus on the same theme. They use different stylistic devices and structure. There two different pieces of writings so the audience feels differently about both of them. In both “Fences” and “Harlem”, stylistic devices are used throughout both texts. In the play, the poet uses stylistic devices to such as imagery “I planted myself inside you, and waited to bloom.”(Wilson) In “Fences” the author uses imagery to get us thinking about what happens to a deferred dream. The poem uses similes to reinforce the same message, “maybe it just sags like a heavy load.”(Hughes)