Dream Deferred - Poem by Langston Hughes

Tom Allport (12/23/2016 10:07:00 AM)

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in a puff of smoke, who knows? (Report) Reply

Camille Johnson (10/29/2016 11:00:00 AM)

I have quoted lines from this poem many times in my life. I admire it so. The play and movie titled A Raisin In The Sun are equally to be appreciated. (Report) Reply

kofi degato (9/23/2016 5:55:00 AM)

Beautiful (Report) Reply

Levester Green Ii (9/21/2016 6:09:00 PM)

MY FAVORITE POEM! QUITE INSPIRING & TRUTHFUL! ~ (Report) Reply

gArY t (5/15/2016 6:20:00 AM)

Mr. Hughes is a genius. Consider the times he grew up in and the audacity to include the last stanza. Wow, brilliant. (Report) Reply

Aabid Masroor (1/27/2016 1:10:00 AM)

Hopes and dreams ,keep going (Report) Reply

Goodnews Eruemuare (10/24/2015 6:59:00 AM)

Truly rhetoric (Report) Reply

Dorothea Forbes (7/9/2010 8:11:00 PM)

I'm a new poet to this, I'm very good at my poetry talent and gifted with my ability to use words for a mental map to the emotional side of the complicated mind. I have a few poems listed under the name of Dorothea Gift Of God. Leave me a message if you like what you read or not. :) Thx's (Report) Reply

Dorothea Forbes (7/9/2010 7:59:00 PM)

I love Langston Hughes! ! ! The way he uses his words is so creative and just hottt. (Report) Reply

Jo Cover (6/15/2010 9:28:00 PM)

A Raisin in the Sun great literature text (Report) Reply

Eben Moreau (4/2/2010 3:31:00 AM)

This is from a few years back and I felt, I should share it because Langston Hughes inspired me to write this. If it was'nt for him and my teacher I would of proble never wrote this thanks 'MyLifetimeDream' My deferred dream is a dream of a lifetime. It is always with me. My deferred deam is that my mom and dad will get back togather. My mom and dad were never married, but they were together for seventeen years. They had four kids, two boys and two girls. We did a lot of family things. We went to the beach togather. We went to the fair together. We always had a great time togather. Then they started fighting. All of a sudden our family just broke apart because my mom and dad split. All of us kids went with my mom. I missed my dad a lot. I loved being with my mom too. A few times they were going to get back together. It made me feel happy inside. The same fighting happened when they tried to get together. The last time they got together I just knew that they were never going to see each other again. To this day I hope that my dream will come true. It makes me feel empty. Now I know what the poem was about, that when you have a dream that doesn't come true, you feel left behind. (Report) Reply

Rachel D. (2/14/2010 3:22:00 AM)

This poem is called HARLEM (Report) Reply

Mohammad Daraghmeh (2/4/2010 9:55:00 AM)

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Kartik Saraf (12/30/2009 11:05:00 PM)

this was a good poem by a great poet. wonderful job (Report) Reply

Tai Chi Italy (8/1/2009 6:30:00 PM)

Lovely...but not for the dreamer. (Report) Reply

A . (7/16/2009 12:56:00 PM)

good, very good................................. :) (Report) Reply

Necib Ilhem (6/12/2009 11:57:00 AM)

I realy liked this poem 'Dream' because it makes me a way for thinking and for creating a good imagination about the life. So without dream the life has no meaning and human being wouldn't do any thing without it's (Report) Reply

Josephine De Leux (6/1/2009 6:52:00 AM)

Grizzly man, there's no use campaigning to a dead guy. Read, darling. (Report) Reply

nothing over (4/27/2009 10:59:00 PM)

Great poem, check out my poems too (Report) Reply

Deborah Schuff (3/20/2009 11:26:00 PM)

Langston Hughes was very much into jazz and incorporated 'jazz tones' into many of his poems, including this 'Dream Deferred' series. Imagine these poems being played by a jazz band or scatted by a jazz singer in order to enjoy the full effect. (Report) Reply