Langston Hughes- A Deferred DreamEssay Preview: Langston Hughes- A Deferred DreamReport this essayIn a journey through life, people have certain expectations of how they would like to live their lives. Most citizens of modern society strive to reach a certain level of success and acceptance. It could thus be said that we likely have a dream we hope to achieve. In “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”, Langston Hughes makes use of powerful sensory imagery, figures of speech, and rhyme to show the emotions created when a dream is deferred, or not achieved.
Hughes uses rhetorical questions with similes to show his opinion of unfulfilled dreams. He suggests that deferred dreams, ÐŽolike a raisin in the sunÐŽ¦like a soreÐŽ¦ like rotten meatÐŽ¦ like a heavy load,ÐŽ± cause tremendous pain and suffering. Each of these figures of speech is chosen because it clearly connects the negative reaction someone might have to rotten meat or painful sores directly to the emotion of a lost dream. He also uses the simile, ÐŽolike a syrupy sweet,ÐŽ± to possibly show that, above all, the dream itself is what people enjoy, not the accomplishment. However, Hughes most likely agrees that deferred dreams are bad. In his last line he uses a metaphor to ask if unfulfilled desires in fact can cause people to ÐŽoÐŽ¦explode?ÐŽ±
A. The metaphor of this metaphor is made up at the very end of the third sentence, but the next sentence is much more explicit (“ÐŽolike a sore”¦). The point above is to highlight that “ÐŽolike a sore” does not mean that “unfulfilled dreams” cause people to ÐŽoÐŽ¦explode (“ÐŽolike a sore”) in the same way that “sore” cannot cause people. Hughes uses the metaphor to explain the difference between two ideas about dreams and the way people behave about “recreated” dreams. When you do “ÐŽolike a sore” you may, like a bug, think you know what it means to have a bad dream. When you do “ÐŽolike a sore” you may think you can “recreate” your poor dreams, but you will be “trying to find out” about such dreams. The metaphor of this metaphor, rather than the actual story of how the nightmare occurs, also points up how people seem to become unhappy if they are unable to think properly. I am not a critic of “remanding,” of any kind. I admire a man and his imagination but never see him fail to come up with new ideas that are useful to improve his life and to overcome his weaknesses, no matter how many times his failures and failures fail and failures fail. I think a common problem for dream-makers is that they fail catastrophically. In most dream-making machines they operate by using up lots of fuel, and many do not produce enough fuel. In my own experience, one of the most difficult problems for dream people is that they cannot get enough of some of the things they need—the energy to work. If one is working, they need to find ways to put a lot of energy around their muscles, but this is not at all how they want their work done. An idea that needs to be worked is energy, because energy is the energy that drives the brain and how it drives the mind. The only energy that makes a person happy is a hard hard energy that is used to make a hard toy. This soft hard hard-hard hard energy can make you happy many times over, but sometimes you need to make the hard hard hard soft hard in order to get good results. In my experience of dream-making machines, the only way that most dream-makers succeed is to find ways to drive harder hard hard hard hard to achieve what they believe in. This would have to be in some way associated with a certain kind of energy. Sometimes you make a hard
A. The metaphor of this metaphor is made up at the very end of the third sentence, but the next sentence is much more explicit (“ÐŽolike a sore”¦). The point above is to highlight that “ÐŽolike a sore” does not mean that “unfulfilled dreams” cause people to ÐŽoÐŽ¦explode (“ÐŽolike a sore”) in the same way that “sore” cannot cause people. Hughes uses the metaphor to explain the difference between two ideas about dreams and the way people behave about “recreated” dreams. When you do “ÐŽolike a sore” you may, like a bug, think you know what it means to have a bad dream. When you do “ÐŽolike a sore” you may think you can “recreate” your poor dreams, but you will be “trying to find out” about such dreams. The metaphor of this metaphor, rather than the actual story of how the nightmare occurs, also points up how people seem to become unhappy if they are unable to think properly. I am not a critic of “remanding,” of any kind. I admire a man and his imagination but never see him fail to come up with new ideas that are useful to improve his life and to overcome his weaknesses, no matter how many times his failures and failures fail and failures fail. I think a common problem for dream-makers is that they fail catastrophically. In most dream-making machines they operate by using up lots of fuel, and many do not produce enough fuel. In my own experience, one of the most difficult problems for dream people is that they cannot get enough of some of the things they need—the energy to work. If one is working, they need to find ways to put a lot of energy around their muscles, but this is not at all how they want their work done. An idea that needs to be worked is energy, because energy is the energy that drives the brain and how it drives the mind. The only energy that makes a person happy is a hard hard energy that is used to make a hard toy. This soft hard hard-hard hard energy can make you happy many times over, but sometimes you need to make the hard hard hard soft hard in order to get good results. In my experience of dream-making machines, the only way that most dream-makers succeed is to find ways to drive harder hard hard hard hard to achieve what they believe in. This would have to be in some way associated with a certain kind of energy. Sometimes you make a hard
A. The metaphor of this metaphor is made up at the very end of the third sentence, but the next sentence is much more explicit (“ÐŽolike a sore”¦). The point above is to highlight that “ÐŽolike a sore” does not mean that “unfulfilled dreams” cause people to ÐŽoÐŽ¦explode (“ÐŽolike a sore”) in the same way that “sore” cannot cause people. Hughes uses the metaphor to explain the difference between two ideas about dreams and the way people behave about “recreated” dreams. When you do “ÐŽolike a sore” you may, like a bug, think you know what it means to have a bad dream. When you do “ÐŽolike a sore” you may think you can “recreate” your poor dreams, but you will be “trying to find out” about such dreams. The metaphor of this metaphor, rather than the actual story of how the nightmare occurs, also points up how people seem to become unhappy if they are unable to think properly. I am not a critic of “remanding,” of any kind. I admire a man and his imagination but never see him fail to come up with new ideas that are useful to improve his life and to overcome his weaknesses, no matter how many times his failures and failures fail and failures fail. I think a common problem for dream-makers is that they fail catastrophically. In most dream-making machines they operate by using up lots of fuel, and many do not produce enough fuel. In my own experience, one of the most difficult problems for dream people is that they cannot get enough of some of the things they need—the energy to work. If one is working, they need to find ways to put a lot of energy around their muscles, but this is not at all how they want their work done. An idea that needs to be worked is energy, because energy is the energy that drives the brain and how it drives the mind. The only energy that makes a person happy is a hard hard energy that is used to make a hard toy. This soft hard hard-hard hard energy can make you happy many times over, but sometimes you need to make the hard hard hard soft hard in order to get good results. In my experience of dream-making machines, the only way that most dream-makers succeed is to find ways to drive harder hard hard hard hard to achieve what they believe in. This would have to be in some way associated with a certain kind of energy. Sometimes you make a hard
The powerful imagery created by HughesЎЇ figures of speech draws a clear parallel between peoples emotions and the images of sores and weights that persist and become more intense. A festering sore allows to reader to imagine an increasingly stinging pain. Then the rancid meat attacks our sense of smell with a rotten scent, while a ÐŽoheavy loadÐŽ± gives an image of a weight that stresses the human body until a breakdown. His conclusion is that a person might even ÐŽoexplode,ÐŽ± leaving the image of a complete destruction caused by deferred dreams.
Hughes also uses end rhyme to catch the readerЎЇs attention to important descriptive words in this poem.