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by BlastRoom
What happens to a dream deferred, and why Hughes says to hold fast to one.
#literature
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In 'Harlem', a dream deferred may dry up 'like a raisin in the sun'. Which device is that, and what does the image suggest about the dream?
'Harlem' asks whether a deferred dream will 'fester like a sore'. What does that image add that the raisin image does not?
In 'Harlem' the deferred dream may 'stink like rotten meat'. Which sense does that image work on, and what does it say about the dream?
'Harlem' offers the possibility that the dream may 'crust and sugar over' like 'a syrupy sweet'. What has happened to the dream in that image?
In 'Harlem', 'sun' rhymes with 'run' and 'meat' rhymes with 'sweet', though the matching lines are not next to each other. Which sound device is Hughes using?
'Harlem' pictures the deferred dream as rotting, drying and crusting over. Which of its images instead makes the dream a weight the dreamer has to carry?
What is the relationship between the first line of 'Harlem' and everything that follows it?
'Harlem' gives six possible responses to its opening question. How many of them are themselves put to the reader as questions?
'Harlem' moves from a raisin drying, to a sore festering, to meat rotting. What does that ordering of the images build?
'Harlem' sets its last line apart from everything before it. What does that closing line do?
'Harlem' names 'a dream deferred' in its first line. Does the poem ever tell the reader what that dream is?
'Dreams' says that if dreams die, 'Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly.' What does that image say about such a life?
Which device is at work in the line from 'Dreams' that reads 'Life is a broken-winged bird'?
'Dreams' closes with the image 'Life is a barren field / Frozen with snow.' What kind of life does that picture?
Both stanzas of 'Dreams' begin with the same words, 'Hold fast to dreams'. What does that repetition do?
'Dreams' pictures a life without dreams twice, once in each stanza. How do the two pictures differ?
Which statement about these two Hughes poems is NOT true?
How do 'Harlem' and 'Dreams' differ in what they ask of the reader?
Both poems set a dream against what happens when it is not fulfilled. What does 'Harlem' add that 'Dreams' does not?
Which image belongs to 'Dreams' rather than to 'Harlem'?
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