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.
There are many talented poets, but there is something special about Langston Hughes that makes him unique. He has many eye-opening poems. Langston Hughes is definitely one of a kind. The poems Cross and Mother to Son by Langston Hughes, use figurative languages such as imagery and syntax to provide more climax. Imagery.
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.
The poem that I chose was Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes I chose this poem because it’s a very confusing and very difficult to understand but if you treat it like a puzzle and take the small parts and put them together and understand what they mean you put the whole picture together. The theme of Dream Deferred was the limitations that African Americans had at the time to come and have the so-called “American Dream”. A simile in the text would be “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun”The author uses this to help his theme by stating that the raisin will become smaller and smaller but it won't disappear. Another part of the poem that contributes is“fester like a sore and the run” this means rejected dream almost physically painful and gets infected and becomes a gross reminder. Finally, the last piece of evidence I could find is “or does it explode” this means that everything is gone and the dream is blown to bits”.
At this time, the dream was equality and being accepted as citizens of the United States. Hughes felt that this goal of liberty and quality for African Americans was very hard to reach or match. A poem that resembles this thought well is titled “Youth”, where Hughes writes, “We have tomorrow… Bright before us… Like a flame” (Hughes 39). This poem has a lot of analysis towards the American Dream.
Langston Hughes’ poem, “Dream Boogie” dramatizes the double consciousness of an African-American. It shows that even during a time of happiness, such as the Harlem Renaissance, an African-American still experiences pain and despair due to the negative impact of race relations. The poem also depicts the limitations that include the inability to succeed one’s dream and the disappointment of not reaching equality. There are two speakers in the poem. The main speaker is well aware of his positon in life as an African American.
While writing, authors incorporate the meanings of poems through style choices. Different forms of style may include similes, metaphors or personification. In the poem “Harlem”, Langston Hughes compares ignored dreams to dying objects, to represent what happens to people who have the potential to be successful, but are never given the opportunity to, due to society looking at them as inferior. To portray the meaning of the poem, that when people are not given the chance to evolve themselves, their potential to succeed diminishes, Hughes uses similes. In the text Hughes asks, “Does it dry up-- like a raisin in the sun?”
Brummitt, Delana Mr. Shipp English 1, Block 3 5/24/23 I Have a Dream Figurative Language Martin Luther King Jr gave the I Have a dream speech to peacefully bring all people together. Throughout the speech there are multiple examples of metaphors, anaphora and allusions to express what is going on and things that need to be done. A metaphor is comparing two things that are not similar to each other without using like or as. Anaphora is changing a word said earlier in the sentence to not use repetition. And an allusion is referring to someone or something with literary text.
The Langston Hughes poems i read were Silver, End, Prayer, and Subway Rush hour. Silver really stood out to me and touched my emotions more than the rest of the poems. The theme of change and nature prevailing has a sense of hope. The poem represents the power of good as nature or life as the stronger force that will win the battle of good vs evil over time.
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).
Langston Hughes use of similes in “Dreams Deferred” have impacted my perception on dreams by making dreams relatable in the poem. The similes in lines 2,3,5,7, and 8 of the poem “Dreams Deferred” help me understand what a dream that has been put off by yourself or other circumstances can feel like. The poem gives me the perception that postponing dreams can turn into dire consequences. The poem also gives me the perception that dreams are too precious to postpone.
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.
In his poem, A Dream Deferred, also known as Harlem, Hughes uses a single metaphor to clinch the end of the poem together. " Or does it explode?" This simple metaphor really evokes emotion and thoughts in every reader.
Meanwhile, the readers can learn something for each of the poems and apply it to their life. They can also noticed how Langston Hughes’s poems often contains hope and noted the possibility that both white and black people can live together in peace and harmony. And the poems also represent the average person of colors’ life and their struggles and frustrations towards the white community throughout the twentieth century. “Theme for English B” was written in 1949 by Hughes, which showcases the
