attaching the guidelines below.
Please read them carefully.
The prompt I’m choosing is:
6. A deferred dream (Hughes)Analyze the idea of a deferred dream in “Harlem.” You might consider: why does the poem use examples from the physical, organic world to explore something psychological/social like a human dream? What relationships does the poem develop among those different examples? What’s the impact of the order of examples? What do each of the examples add to our understanding of how to think about a dream deferred? How does the title of the poem add to our understanding of the poem’s purpose? Why does it end-rhymes with the words it does? What’s the significance of ending this poem with a one-line stanza, and the word “explode”? Why is that at the end instead of the beginning or somewhere else?
I’m also attaching the Hughes poem
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