Analysis of Langston Hughes Harlem (Dream Deferred) :: Hughes Harlem Dream Deferred Essays

Analysis of Harlem (Dream Deferred)               Langston Hughess rime Dream Deferred is basically or so what happens to dreams when they are put on hold.  Hughes probably intended for the poem to way on the dreams of African-Americans in particular because he originally entitled the poem Harlem, which is the capital of African American life in the United States however, it is full as easy to read the poem as being near dreams in general and what happens when mint postpone making them come true.  Ultimately, Hughes uses a carefully arranged series of images that excessively function as figures of speech to suggest that people should not delay their dreams because the much they postpone them, the more the dreams will change and the less likely they will come true.   In the opening of the poem the loudspeaker uses a visual image that is also a simile to compare a dream deferred to a raisin.  The speaker asks t he question, Does it the dream dry up / similar a raisin in the sun? (2-3).  hither we can see the raisin, which used to be a moist, taut, healthy-looking grape, has shriveled up to become a raisin.  The speaker does not emphasize the appearance of the raisin, so the description isnt as significant as an image as it is as a simile.  Why compare a dream deferred to a raisin?  Like a raisin, a dream deferred shrivels up and turns dark because the sun has sunbaked it.  The emphasis on the sun is important because it stresses time-we measure time by the suns movement.  Like the raisin, the dream has been on hold for a long time-consequently, it has change into something very different than it once was.  Because they look so different, few people would believe that raisins were once grapes unless they had been told.  Similarly, a dream that continues to be postponed will go through an evolution as well-it wont be the same as the original.