Dream Deferred
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?
-Langston Hughs (1902-1967)
what do you think?
posted by Rachael @ 21.9.05
2 comments
2 Comments:
I think I stopped criticizing literature sometime around May or June.
That being said, you didn't quite ask for LitCrit. So I can smile and think and answer.
It depends on the dream.
Some dreams just go away.
Others are important and stay.
Still others neigh and bray...
like a horse.
See, I could be Langston Hughes too!
TIM! you could be! i miss you! yeah, i found the poem in my poetry text book (implying that i'm in a poetry class, hence the "LitCrit") but it made me think of boston, or just any dream i've had in general. and i liked the question posed. but more, the fact that it invited me to look for an answer.
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