Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem: Dream Deferred” and John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men share a similar theme. Certain circumstances cause dreams to be impossible to achieve, and all people endure this in different ways. In “Harlem: Dream Deferred”, the speaker suggests that deferred dreams can “crust and sugar over-- / like a syrupy sweet” (Hughes 8-9).
Emily Dickenson “519” poem depicts the process of a decaying body by using specific words and phrases. The poem gives a description of different stages a body goes through as it dies. The use of syntax helps create distance between the speaker and the dead body, the specific words and phrases also help in creating an eery, cold tone. She becomes curious with death, she does not see the body as a person who she is grieving for, and instead the body just becomes a decaying frozen river bank.
Hope Tricia Downing is a world class athlete who has the love and passion for cycling. Trisha was one of the best female cyclists in the country. Her luck then changed when she was struck by a vehicle while on a cycle trip one Sunday afternoon. Trish was rushed to the nearest hospital where she had learned that she suffered from a T-4 spinal cord injury during the wreck.
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.
Hospitality is something the ancient Greeks thought highly of. They treated all their guests with honor and respect. Greeks treated their guests like this because this stranger could be a god in disguise. They believed that if one were to follow the hospitality code, you shall be rewarded. If you were to disregard the hospitality code, you will be punished.
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”.
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.
One may ask how a poet can use such vivid similes and descriptive imagery to describe a dream postponed. In “Harlem” Langston Hughes employs similes versus everyday life occurrences to make sense of what can happen to a dream that is in delay. His implementation of realistic symbolism captivates the reader which draws you in, inviting the reader to explore a darker theme of an unrealized dream. “Harlem” connects with people who may have to set aside their dreams while battling an uncertain future. What happens when things don’t go the way you dreamed it?
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).
Fiction There are some similarities and differences in "Boys" by Rick Moody, "Girl" by Jamaica Kinkaid and "Lust" by Susan Minot; thus, they will be discussed in terms of the narrator, point of view, and character development. " Boys" is about two brothers and their journey throughout life. During the story they face many conflicts; while "Girl" seems to be a series of instructions from a mother to her daughter. "Lust" is powerful and seductive by the way that the anonymous girl is talking about her life.
(Steinbeck 57).” This situation shows that the “American Dream” is essentially impossible to reach. A Dream Deferred was a poem written by Langston Hughes. Hughes perfectly demonstrates this ideology through his poem and there is a sense of truth to all of this. He writes that dreams are irrelevant and pointless to have because the best made plans never happen and life has a funny way of making all throughout the story, Lennie and George’s main purpose was to have enough money to be able to afford their dream farm.
“All our dreams can come true if we have enough courage to pursue them.” said Walt Disney. If you doubt yourself just once, that feeling will hang over your head and you may never accomplish what you wanted. His constant use of literary devices, connotation, and figurative language shown by similes. Langston Hughes urges that a dream dismissed will stubbornly fade away in his poem “A Dream Deferred”.
The poem that I chose is Dreams by Langston Hughes. The theme of this short and straightforward poetry is the importance of keeping your dreams alive. Hughes uses a somewhat hopeless and sorrowful tone to portray his message. He uses metaphors, personification, and repetition to convey this theme. In this essay, I will be discussing how each figurative language contributed to the tone of the poem.
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.
