Dream Deferred

Langston Hughes wrote “Dream Deferred” in 1961. Although Langston Hughes poem, Dream Deferred, is short, it leads to the reader questing whether they have had a dream deferred, and what happened to that dream. When the question is asked “what happens to a dream deferred,” the answers appears to be more questions. The writer’s poem explains when a dream is put off the effects can be quite serious. The writer also never names a specific dream attached to the poem which then allows the reader to place the poem on the deepest of personal level, one’s own failures and achievements. Langston Hughes uses five similes followed by an intense powerful statement “Or does it explode?”to describe possible ansers . The argument this poem poses is, how each simile shows how different types of dreams are postponed.
The first simile that Hughes uses in his work is “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun ?” Raisins are good food and useful, however if it is left in the sun to...