THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Question
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“And then run?”
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“Or does it explode?”
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“Or crust and sugar over”
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“Does it stink like rotten meat?”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Simile: It is a figure of speech used to compare something with something else to make the meanings clear to the readers. For example, “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”, “Does it stink like rotten meat” and “like a syrupy sweet.” Here are the broken dreams are compared to decaying food items.
Detailed explanation-2: -entitled Harlem[Dream Deffered], the following stanza presents gustatory imagery. Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet? The words Syrupy sweet, get the readers imagine the taste of sugar. Through this poem, Hughes tells the readers that if his dreams come true and perfect, then it would be as sweet as sugar.
Detailed explanation-3: -In “Dreams, ” Langston Hughes develops his central metaphor in two ways. He compares life without dreams to a broken-winged bird that cannot fly and to a barren field frozen with snow. Since the images are so plain and concrete, the metaphor is clear: life without dreams is no good.