Harlem
...tanding, which left them to wonder if their dreams had any chance to come true. In the poem, “Harlem” by a African American, Langston Hughes (1902- 1967), written during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s and 1930’s, he describes what happens when a dream dies or is “deferred”. L. Hughes describes these deferred dreams in many different ways. The first way was “does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” still sweet but deflated. “Or fester like a sore and run?” getting rubbed and thought about for so long that you feel like it will never happen so you give up and it goes away. His most visual use of words is the line, “Does it stink like rotten meat?” which to me means that if a dream sits there so long and it is not attained that it goes bad and is too late to be used. “Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet?” I think pertains to obstacles that happen in peoples lives that keep them from obtaining their dreams, like the obstacles the blacks faced when they tried to obtain their dreams. Sometimes dreams are so important in our lives and seem so unobtainable that th...