Re-Read Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem” below. As we discussed, Lorraine Hansberry used part of the third line of Hughes’s poem for the title of her play. Write a reflection paper describing why you think Hansberry found the line appropriate for the title and in your analysis explain what the “dream deferred” refers to and how it can also relate to the family in Hansberry’s play. You should connect specific lines of the poem to specific characters from the play to more fully draw connections in your analysis.
Link to Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘A raisin in the sun’: https://www.westada.org/cms/lib/ID01904074/Centric…
“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?
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