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Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

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(1902 - 1967)
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Dream Deferred
 
  What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

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Coll B. Lue (3/13/2008 8:22:00 AM)
The reference to food and then the stench of dreams 'deferred' and festering sores are very evocative imageries.
Kat V (3/7/2008 12:25:00 PM)
The similes are incredibly illustrative of the feelings a person has when his or her dreams go unfilled-for whatever reason-in life.

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