Dreams Deferred By Langston Hughes Analysis

Langston Hughes poem, “Dreams Deferred,” not only allows me to reminisce on the simplicity of my youth, but causes a sort of apprehensiveness that seems to cloaks my thoughts in a darkness that is inescapable. Hughes’ has always played an interesting part in my life considering that my father was always fond of his writing. However, this poem in particular seems to be perpetually pulsating through my mind even in times when ecstasy should flow through my veins and dopamine should control the corners of which my promising tongue dwells. My father was once a literary lover with dreams of becoming an enticer of words as Hughes had once been. Perhaps in compliance with Hughes’ poem, my father’s dream dried up like a raisin in the sun with the