THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Question
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Grow more powerful
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Will be changed in a negative way
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Stay alive with enough hope
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Never truly disappear
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Detailed explanation-1: -When the speaker refers to “a dream deferred, ” they are talking about the postponement of a conscious dream, the failure of nonfulfillment of an aspiration, in this instance freedom from oppression.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hughes shows his fear of having his dreams deferred by portraying only negative possibilities. He speculates that deferred dreams may dry, fester, stink, crust, sag or explode.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hughes begins his poem with a question. “What happens to a dream deferred?” The word ‘deferred, ’ in this context, means that it is put off or delayed indefinitely.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.