Dream Deferred is one of Langston Hughes famous poetry. I and my friends had discussed and made an analysis and wrapped it in a power point slides. Here we go, hope this can help :)

1. Group 2
Cresecendo Baumans (121214084)
Kurnianingtyas Dita P. (121214089)
M. Angga Kurnia H. (121214085)
Carolina Dini Wulansari (121214102)

2. In 1951, African American people in America were
seen as the second-classed citizens even the Civil War was
over. They had to attend poorly equipped schools and
worked as lowly jobs like porters, ditch-diggers, servants,
and so on. They could not use the same public facilities as
the whites, including restrooms, restaurants, theaters, or
parks. In a bus, they had to take the back seat.
In that case, Hughes wanted to express this situation
into a poem.

3. 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?

4. Similes
comparing a dream deferred with
a raisin in the sun, a sore, rotten
meat, a syrupy sweet, and a heavy
load.
Repetition of certain sounds
- up, sun
-meat, sweet
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?
Setting
- Originally sets in America in 50s
- Nowadays : anywhere and
anytime

5. Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore- (lines 2-4)
Comparison of the dream to a raisin and a fester
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet? (lines 6-8)
Comparison of the dream to foods
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load. (lines 9-10)
Comparison of the dream to a heavy load.

6. - A man who express the true feeling of blacks in America.
- A person who has a postponed dream.
- To show the true feeling of African American people ini
America in that time.
- To express the gloomy or depressing feeling of having a
postponed dream.
Lyric poem.
(A poem which expresses the speaker’s mind)

7. Rhyme :
Some internal
(Assonance)
-- up, sun
--meat, sweet
(Alliteration)
-- What happens to a dream deferred?
-- Does it dry up (lines 1-2)
-- syrupy sweet (line 7)
End :
No end rhyme

8. Raisin
A raisin is a grape that has been dried up.
Like a raisin means a long-sitting unreached dream
that loses its "juice" or spirit and then shrinks.
A grape is usually fresh and plump, but then it is dried
up to be a raisin that is shriveled.

9. The speaker tells us that having a deferred dream is painful.
A dream deferred tell us what will happen if we postpone our dream
too long.
A deferred dream make us lifeless like a raisin in the sun.
The pain will be worse because it is untreated, fester like a sore. If
we stay postponing our dream, it will stink and rot and it becomes
disgusting for the dreamer, then it is better to throw it away than
keep it. It will stuck like a crust on something sweet if we ignore it
too long. A postponed dream will not be moving, it just stays and
droops down, it is like a heavy load that sags. And at the end, our
deferred dream makes us lose our hope, live in despair or chaos, or
burn in frustration.