Monday, October 29, 2012

"A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes

 

A Dream Deferred

by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?


 

 Another very popular poem in American literature.  Langston Hughes spoke of race issues in the United States in such a way that his poetry will live on forever.

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