Harlem 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?"

Here I decided to quote the whole poem because I really liked it, it makes me think of many dreams that sometimes we don’t or can’t accomplish, but in this case it is talking about another dream… the dream of black and white people living together as equals. The poem makes a lot of questions making us think of how the world would be like if discrimination continues. Will everything be up side down?

It is saying that maybe it will destroy us all, because in all the questions it makes the result is bad for us, when a raisin dries it is not a good raisin any more; we don’t like the smell of rotten meat; a heavy load… not everybody is strong enough to deal with it… and an explosion… it is not necessary to explain that one. I believe that this poem is telling true things that happen and I liked it because it made me think of a different today, a horrible today… guess that was the point of this.