Poems can be hard to understand, but poems are talking about life. In the poem, “What happens to a dream deferred?” by Langston Hughes, a person is asking himself about the question and then thinking about the possible answers which he is also wondering if the answers were right. In the first stanza, a curious person asks himself a question and then thinks a lot of probable answers he can come up and then one of the answers might be the right answer in the last stanza. The speaker is curious about the possible answers to his question. In the poem, the curious man, or the speaker, asks himself, “What happens to a dream deferred?” The curious man thinks about the question and he says different answers, “Does it dry up/Like a raisin in the sun?/Or
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The second, third and the last stanzas are the possible answers in the poem, which is in the first stanza. The poet uses rhyme verse in all stanzas except the first stanza. The structure of the poem made the readers feel thoughtful because they wonder what would happen to a dream deferred and looking at the possible answers they might pick one the answers in the poem or maybe they think the last stanza of the poem is the right answer, since the last stanza is in italics. The sounds and figurative language help the structure to go with the poem. Figurative language and sound elements make poems a lot creative. The striking the last stanza, “Or does it explode?” Readers sometimes wonder if that is the right answer to the question in the poem because it is in italics. The words in the poem that the poet put in the poem made the readers think what the word means in a different way. The figurative language creates images in the poem as the readers read the poem. The sound elements create an emotional response because the answers to the question made the readers feel wonder to which answer is the best answer to the question. The poet use the rhyme in the poem to make the poem more creative and make readers enjoy reading the poem. So the poem is an interesting poem to read because of the structure, sound elements and the figurative language that make the readers to read the
The second, third and the last stanzas are the possible answers in the poem, which is in the first stanza. The poet uses rhyme verse in all stanzas except the first stanza. The structure of the poem made the readers feel thoughtful because they wonder what would happen to a dream deferred and looking at the possible answers they might pick one the answers in the poem or maybe they think the last stanza of the poem is the right answer, since the last stanza is in italics. The sounds and figurative language help the structure to go with the poem. Figurative language and sound elements make poems a lot creative. The striking the last stanza, “Or does it explode?” Readers sometimes wonder if that is the right answer to the question in the poem because it is in italics. The words in the poem that the poet put in the poem made the readers think what the word means in a different way. The figurative language creates images in the poem as the readers read the poem. The sound elements create an emotional response because the answers to the question made the readers feel wonder to which answer is the best answer to the question. The poet use the rhyme in the poem to make the poem more creative and make readers enjoy reading the poem. So the poem is an interesting poem to read because of the structure, sound elements and the figurative language that make the readers to read the