anything will just allow it to be forgotten at all. Many events in Langston Hughes poem were shown throughout his “Dream Deferred” poem. One of the most interesting events is him leaving Columbia university to study engineering in 1922 because of racial prejudice. Dream Deferred is one of Langston Hughes most important and definitely one of his most famous poems because his message was so realistic. Langston Hughes “Dream Deferred” describes whether allowing your dreams to escape your priorities and be postponed will only make them vanish after time.
In the poem “Dream Deferred” Langston Hughes the speaker is identified throughout the whole poem. The speaker in the poem can be a former dreamer who now lives in denial. The speaker sounds as if they were talking from experience because the metaphors were so interesting throughout the whole poem. The speaker of the poem seems as if they're talking to their former self or a younger self because they seem to appear to talk with regret or advice to their former self. The speaker's tone in the poem represents major themes of questioning how a dream can escape and especially regret. It seems as if the speaker is talking to current dreamers because they would like to encourage people to follow their dreams soon and not to postpone them. Another theme is to allow your dreams to be reality and not to let a dream escape from one's grasp.
Many poet tools were showcased throughout the short poem “Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes.
The diction the poet is employing is definitely sensory images because it allowed me to view images in my mind and the poem allowed for many different interpretations about the same theme. I believe the way word choices joined into a rhyming pattern and the type of imagery Langston Hughes was able to portray allowed the poem to have a very questioning tone. The poem also came off to me as a regretful tone from the speaker in which this case a former dreamer talking to potential future dreamers. There are many figures of speech included in the poem like similes. There is a rhyme scheme every 2nd line like “sun” and “run.” Similes are another major figure of speech. There are many similes like “Like a raisin in the sun?” or “Does it stink like rotten …show more content…
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Imagery was bedazzled throughout the poem and many impressions were being created to show a powerful meaning behind it. The dominant impressions being made in the poem “Dream Deferred” is clearly regret because after reading the poem I had a sense of the speaker regretting allowing time to replenish their dreams. The words used in the poem all show that bad things are going to happen when dreams are left unresolved and forgotten. Depictions like “Does it dry up” leaves the reader with views that no matter how big dreams can be if we allow them to dry up they will be small and wrinkled like dry raisins which he mentions in the following line. When people are dealing with regret they normally use negative sayings like the ones shown in the poem. There aren't any senses to conclude the time of day the poem is occurring at. The season of the year isn't clear either because it doesn't state it in the poem. The atmospheres of the poem I believe is dark and moody because it speaks from a regretful standpoint. The images in “Dream Deferred” progress from starting off talking about what delayed dreams can be and it ends the last sentence by specifically leaving the viewer wondering if delayed dreams really do just “explode.” In conclusion, I believe that Langston Hughes was able to succeed in achieving all his messages in “Dream Deferred.” Langston Hughes was able to showcase to the audience that delaying dreams or anything in that matter is a wrongful decision that will only lead to regret in the long run.
He expressed in simile format and with great imagery to really show that dreams are something to hold onto with great pride and not let it go so easy or to postpone them without second thought. The poem brings forward sensitive themes like regret because the speaker sounds as if they had experience towards the subject. The second subject it brings is giving advice, because it sounds like the speaker is giving advice to his former self with the combination of imagery. The poem identifies a dreamer as a speaker talking to his former self or another dreamer to aware him of the mistakes he might make when focusing on other things to let their dreams be put on hold and then vanish. Langston Hughes received the inspiration for this poet of his early life and him being infatuated with motivating individuals. I believe that the poem sets out to scare people with saying that if you don't chase dreams they will just diminish and be forgotten and can no longer still exist. All together from the way this poem was constructed to how it was layered in a rhythmic fashion Langston Hughes “Dream Deferred” definitely succeeded in his strong
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