Dreams in Harlem by Langston Hughes Essay -- Harlem, Langston Hughes

Harlem by Langston Hughes uses similes in free-and-easy life to make sense of what can happen to a deferred aspiration. in that location are more different possible outcomes.Harlem has been known, prior to the twentieth deoxycytidine monophosphate for being an African American community stricken with crime and poverty. analogous a shot it is a booming cultural and business center and they are experiencing a social and economic renaissance. The poem mentions in the first line a deferred dream (line 1). A dream that is postponed or delayed, and asks what happens to that dream. There are many things that could become of it, such as it drying up like a raisin in the sun, (lines 2 and 3) as if cramping up to be something dry of the hope and lusciousness it once had. But nevertheless it still exists. It could also mean that the dream is perfected by sitting for a while in a persons heart like a sun arid raisin is perfected by being in the sun.The deferred dream could fester like a sore (lines 4 and 5) bubbling up in someones mind and expanding, then busting and running out. This dream could slowly let out out and then be gone, but ...