What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?(Hughes) A Raisin in the Sun becomes to be dry. At first, it might be fresh, but the grape is getting dry and becomes the raisin in the sun. In this way, the grape is changed and disappeared.
What is the American Dream? Many people have tried to explain the dream, or how they feel about the dream. Most try to be all patriotic and country loving like Walt Whitman... But others like Langston Hughes reveal a darker side of the dream. Whitman hears America Singing.
These past few days of learnig the styles of poetry has helped me create a sense of how I would write my own poems. The poem I liked the most was a dream deferred by Langston Hughes, the poet puts things in a new perspective instead of putting the fault on the dreamer,Langston put the blame on the dream. The dream “festers up like a sore and then runs” As people we want to have the best outcome in life and have sucess , but obstacles in our lives hold us back. This poem made me relalize that we shouldd go for our dreams now. There will never be a perfect time or place, we must simply just reach for the stars.
Ethan Frome was a rotten man who lets his dream be forgotten. After choosing to stay with Zenobia for seven years, he tried to break free from his monotonous life. He spent time putting off his dream and he suffered because of his choices. In the poem "Dream deferred", Langston Hughes explains what happens to a dream that an individual ignores. Ethan 's dream "festered like a sore" and then escaped him (Hughes 3) Ethan didn 't have an untroubled happy.
For example, Langston Hughes says, “What happens to a dream deferred?” (Hughes). This means, what happens when a dream is ignored? This poem was written in a time with feelings of segregation and discrimination toward blacks in America. In addition, Hughes says, "Does it dry up" (Hughes).
The American Dream is a concept deeply embedded in the culture of the United States, and constantly feeds the imagination of people throughout history. From early America to today the American Dream exists among us and we all work towards it. The poem, "Let America Be America Again," by Langston Hughes and Yasmina Shaush's essay, "The American Dream Lives On," show different perspectives on the desired American Dream. While Hughes's poem reflects on the lies of the American Dream, Shaushs essay shows the optimisms and good behind the American Dream. The works "Let America Be America Again" and "The American Dream Lives On" present contrasting perspectives on the American Dream and its impact in American society.
The poems, “Lineage”, by Margaret Walker, and “Helen Keller”, by Langston Hughes have many similarities and differences in the theme, imagery, and figurative language. The theme in Walker’s poem is about how grandmas are very tough, and you should respect your elders, while the theme in Hughes’ poem is about when times are hard, find your inner strength. A similarity between the two themes is that both idolize and admire strong women that have the power to find strength through dark times. For example, Walker’s poem states, “...full of sturdiness and singing. My grandmothers were strong”.
What exactly happens when a dream is deferred? What are the long lasting effects if a dream is lost? In the poem, Harlem, by Langston Hughes, it questions lost dreams by asking, “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun, Or fester like a sore-- And then run?”. August Wilson explores the ideas of deferred dreams in his play, Fences, as characters experience setbacks in their life goals and must cope with loss. Wilson explores the common life experience of deferred dreams, that can be perpetuated within families of color, in his characters, Troy, Cory, and Rose.
In the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, several similes are used to portray the reality of dreams. Hughes employs effective metaphors, inviting us to visualize a dream and what may happen to it after it passes from conscious thought. Could a dream dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or even fester like a sore? (Hughes, 1951, p. 631).
It connects to the theme of not pushing a dream because as more questions come the more you get to these effects of what happens when a dream is not pursued. In the poem, the speaker says, “Does it stink like rotten meat?”(line 6). The speaker says this in order to make the reader think about what happens to the dream. It's no longer pursuable in a way. The dream is going away and soon it won't be good enough to chase
The metaphors compares life without dreams to a broken-winged bird. My understanding of this metaphor is that dreams can change your life in extreme way whether you hold on to dreams or let dreams go, because dreams hold great importance to our lives. However, the metaphors give me the perception to hold on to the dreams because it explains that letting go of dreams would be hurtful to your
Everyone has dreams, but the thing is most people never accomplish them. Some people put off their dreams to the side because something more important than their dreams comes forth. They believe that is better to put their dreams to the side or give up on them and allow their dreams to fade in their minds. In “What happens to a dream deferred?” by Langston Hughes, the poet uses the title, tone, diction, and selection of detail, to express how people are affected by deferred dreams.
His metaphor puts a final image to the struggle of oppression during the Civil Rights Movement and what happens to a black man or woman when a dream is deferred. Hughes wants his readers to not only imagine but feel how African Americans felt during the Civil Rights Movement when he wrote this poem. He wanted to convey the pain, anguish, disrespect, and ultimately, the conclusion of what may happen to a dream that continues to be deferred. What would happen to a dream deferred?
The pain of a Negro musician The poem’s purpose was to vocalize the hard ship of the dark culture and to utilize the blues, which at the time was viewed as African American music. Blues was a way for African Americans to deliver messages and expression. The purpose of the poem is to express the suffering of African American people. The poem has a lot to do with the torment and mishandle of African Americans. “Hughes uses the blues itself as songful lament for the black experience in America” (Brown).
A Bird’s Eye View Emily Dickinson opens up her poem with the famous line, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words,’’. Paul Laurence Dunbar ends his poem with the line “I know why the caged bird sings!”. These two lines from the poets form the theme of the two poems. The poem “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson, and “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar both present a theme that suffering makes you appreciate hope much more. It seems that hope and pain are almost a dynamic duo.
