Summary Of Harlem By Langston Hughes

“Harlem,” by Langston Hughes was written in 1951. During the 1950’s America was still discriminative towards African Americans. Although it is not stated in the poem whether Hughes is talking about a specific dream, the poem does have a melancholy and dark atmosphere to it. Some of the lines in the poem are, “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”, and“Or fester like a sore and the run?” Therefore, in my opinion, he is more than likely talking about African Americans not being able to pursue a dream they have due to the cruel setting around them that took place throughout this era. I assume Hughes wanted to describe or simply speak about the struggles African Americans were facing the time he published this poem. How when they aspire to