Similarly, a dream that continues to be postponed will go through a transformation as well-it won’t be the same as the original. Because they look so different, few people would believe that raisins were once grapes unless they had been told. Here you can see the raisin, which used to be a moist, healthy-looking grape, has shriveled up to become a raisin.Like the raisin, the dream has been on hold for a long time and eventually it has transformed into something very different than it once was. Hughes asks the question, “Does it dry up, Like a raisin in the sun? ” (2-3). In the opening of the poem Hughes uses a visual image that compares a dream deferred to a raisin. Hughes probably intended for the poem to focus on the dreams of African-Americans because he originally entitled the poem “Harlem,” which is the capital of African American life in the United States however, it is just as easy to read the poem as being about dreams in general and what happens when people postpone making them come true.Overall, Hughes uses a carefully arranged series of images that suggest that people should not delay their dreams because the more they postpone them, the more the dreams will change and the less likely they will come true. Langston Hughes’s poem “Dream Deferred” is basically about what happens to dreams when they are put on hold.
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