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Monster Essays - A Dream Deferred - Poetry Explination
"A Dream Deferred"
What happens to a dream deferred? (a)
like a raisin in the sun? (c)
And then run? (c)
Does it stink like rotten meat? (e)
Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet? (e)
Maybe it just sags (f)
like a heavy load. (g)
Or does it explode? (g)
Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was born into an abolitionist family. As the grandson of James Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855, Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected ....
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