THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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hopes and aspirations of people who have been oppressed.
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poet’s vision of equality among peoples of all nations.
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city’s plan to rebuild and revitalize Harlem.
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state of peacefulness that prevails in Harlem.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The message of “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes is that people should be free to fulfill their dreams and that not being able to do so, as happened to many African-Americans at the time the poem was written and before, is harmful to people and leads to unhappiness.
Detailed explanation-2: -This short poem about dreams is one of the most influential poems of the 20th century. In “Harlem, ” Langston Hughes asks one of American poetry’s most famous questions: what happens to a dream deferred? This question echoes throughout American culture, from Broadway to Dr.
Detailed explanation-3: —Langston Hughes 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?