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Dream Deferred


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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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Dream Deferred
By Langston Hughes
The meaning of the words:
Faster: to get in flied.
Sore: painful.
Run: the liquid flow.
Rotten: something has gone.
Crust: (n) the cover.
(V) To form a crust means to form outside.
Syrupy: adj of syrup.
Sags: fall down because of the weight.
Explode: to worst up.
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Paraphrasing:
What happens to a dream deferred?
The poet is wondering of what will happen to a dream if it is delayed.
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
He is wondering if it will dry up like a raisin that is put in the sun.
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it fester like an infected wounded.
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Does it become like a rotten meat that has a very bad smell.
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Does it become UN useful syrupy sweet.
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Does it keep pulling you down just like a heavy load you are carrying.
Or does it explode?
At the end maybe it will become very dangers, violent, and explode liked a bomb that spread all over and cause death.
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Figure of speech:
1) Dream deferred compared to raisin in the sun.
The similarity is both of them dry, shrink, and become smaller. (Simile)
2) Dream deferred compared to sore.
The similarity is both of them faster, painful, unhealthy, and disgusting. (Simile)
3) Dream deferred compared to rotten meat.
The similarity is both of them stink, disgusting, disturbing, and unhealthy for people. (Simile)
4) Dream deferred compared to syrupy sweet.
The similarity is both of them inedible and unpleasant. (Simile)
5)Dream deferred compared to heavy load.
The similarity is both of them heavy and depressing. (Simile)
6) Dream deferred compared to bomb.
The similarity is both of them violent, explode, spread, and death. (phor)
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Purpose:
The poet is trying to raise awareness about the reason of the violent created by black people in America and at the same time to try to sympathy with the case of the blacks.
Theme:
This poem decides the consequence of being unable to full felled your goal in life. If dreams are deleted and not full felled for along time they become UN pleasant or in the most cases they lead to violent. This theme expressed sex rhetorical questions each investigating one figure of speech simile and the last question that mentioned violent phor that is more forces and stress the possibility of violent