"A dream deferred" is one of the most famous poems written by Langston Hughes in his collection of poetry Montage of a Dream Deferred. it was published in 1951 about the white oppression of blacks in America. there were prejudice against blacks, making them into lower class citizens. They had to go to segregated school and also do menial jobs. furthermore they could not use the same public facilities as the whites. Thus, after realising the limitations as a black man in America, Hughes wrote "A dream deferred" that has eleven short lines in four stanzas. This essay will be explaining about the structure of the poem and literary techniques that are used, how Hughes uses imagery and figurative language to show possible reaction of delaying dreams
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When there is a sore on a person 's body, the changes that are happening on it can not be intervened and prevented, in the end it gets infected, just like how someone is disappointed with dreams that can not come true or achieve, which will happen when dreams are neglected. The unfulfilled dreams suppurate and rankle within someone, leading to annoyance and anger that leaks out of the person. The unachieved dreams became a part of someone, like an injury that has inflamed. The words fester and run connote pain, that postponed dreams are like painful wounds that are starting to worsen, the frustration feeling that will eventually causes resentment within people and those …show more content…
For instance by looking at "or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet". The repetition of s in "sugar" and "syrupy sweet". suggests the pessimism to things that are supposed to be happy and optimistic, like the lies people tell themselves after putting off dreams till later time, they sugar-coat the lies, hoping to swallow them, but the lies are too sweet they become disgusting. This means people can just create lies and excuses to delay dreams, or make good promises of accomplishing the dreams, and while the dream was sweet at first, it begins to rotten after some
When there is a sore on a person 's body, the changes that are happening on it can not be intervened and prevented, in the end it gets infected, just like how someone is disappointed with dreams that can not come true or achieve, which will happen when dreams are neglected. The unfulfilled dreams suppurate and rankle within someone, leading to annoyance and anger that leaks out of the person. The unachieved dreams became a part of someone, like an injury that has inflamed. The words fester and run connote pain, that postponed dreams are like painful wounds that are starting to worsen, the frustration feeling that will eventually causes resentment within people and those …show more content…
For instance by looking at "or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet". The repetition of s in "sugar" and "syrupy sweet". suggests the pessimism to things that are supposed to be happy and optimistic, like the lies people tell themselves after putting off dreams till later time, they sugar-coat the lies, hoping to swallow them, but the lies are too sweet they become disgusting. This means people can just create lies and excuses to delay dreams, or make good promises of accomplishing the dreams, and while the dream was sweet at first, it begins to rotten after some