Dose It Stink Like Rotting Meat Poem

Personal connection: This poem makes me think of Leaving (forgetting) something that means something to you. In the poem it says "dose It stink like rotting meat" this refers to leaving (forgetting) a piece of meat and after a while it becomes worthless. I can relate because once I saved a chocolate bar and waited a year to eat it when I went to eat it, it was stale and I had to throw it out. In my life I have waited to long to do something and it ended up becoming worthless and it "dried up" .

Meaning: I assume that the author is talking about his personal experience with deferred dreams. I also assume he never actual had his dreams deferred because he says "what happens to a dream deferred" If he had his dreams deferred then he would know but I think he has struggle with it. I think the meaning of this poem is don't pose pone things that you are passionate about by using examples like "dose it stink like rotting meat" I think he referring to the meat as your dream if you wait to long it's worthless. …show more content…
The main point and topic of the poem was are rhetorical question and was "What happens when dream get differed" this line is the biggest and the most impactful rhetorical question in the poem but the author also used ritrocal question to say this thoughts and created a pattern of reputations this adds to flow of the poem an example of one of these question is "dose it dry up like a