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”. Another type of figurative language introduced in Dream Deferred “fester like a sore - and then run?" This is important to the poem’s meaning because it shows that when They officially come to America it isn't quite the dream they thought it would be. What it truthfully means is a gross reminder of a …show more content…
The importance of this Simile is to show that nothing will always stay good everything has its expiration date. The meaning of the figurative language is something that has to start off as good and has rotted away and become tainted. It contributes to the tone of the story because when we are born we are innocent and cannot hurt a single thing and we can't be hurt but, as we turn older we learn about neglect, sadness, time and most important we realize that we lose things and people around us. The word choice the poet used is innocent until you realize what the poet is truly trying to say so it becomes less