Dream Deferred

Because this author writes this during the Harlem Renaisance, it is fairly safe to assume they write this over the African American movement for equal rights. But dreams are created by everyone. And just like the scenarios expressed in this poem, anything can happen. Welcome to life, humble reader. The speaker uses painful, disgusting, gruesome, and grotesque adjetives to explain how a dream can go horribly wrong. Life has many options, many choices, and many outcomes. Few are whatwe expect them to be, and most dreams fall by the waysaide. If every child who said they wanted to e a fireman fulfilled that dream, we could have a fireman in every house of America keeping watch. "Or does it explode?" (Hughes). I love this line because everyone has one passion in them, and when they truely work for that one dream, nothing can stand in their way, and out of the norm they explode to stand out.