poem rough draft essay

"Harlem"

In Langston Hughes "Harlem" poem the author expresses a sense of wonder and curiosity towards dreams. The speaker gives diferent similes through out the poem to try amd establish different feelings towards ideas of past dreams.He asks the question of what happens to a dream deferred and tries to come up with an answer. Going through you notice that he uses similes and a metaphor to try and compare what exactly happens to a dream when after you have had it.

A example of this would be when he first compares a dream to a raisin that drys up while it sits in the sun. By looking at this simile it gives you an image of seeing a shriveled up raisin that just stays in the sun with no thought to it. Which is what I believe the author is trying to get across as that once a dream has happened it is just left in your brain and not really given much thought so it becomes a shriveled up memory that stays in your brain with no other use. He gives the feeling that maybe after we dream it isn't very important as to what the dream was so it doesn't matter if the dream stays there with not a second thought.

Next he takes a different feeling towards what happens to a dream but comparing it to a festering sore. By doing this his feelings have changed to a to be able to say that maybe after we have our dreams they stay in our thoughts and we keep thinking bout them. They keep growing and growing till they just keep going on and on. He is curious to know if dreams grow and grow till they just leave like a sore when it runs from becoming to big.

After compare dreams to things that become forgotten or grow to big the author shifts his view to as making dreams go bad like rotten meat. He brings to light the feeling that maybe dreams like meat go bad or rotten. The idea of is dream is shifted from a curious thing to rotten idea left behind by a dream. Yet he also gives the feeling of a sweet memory from a dream when he said "or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet" giving us the idea that dater a dream had happened it gives you a sense of good feeling that is sweet and pleasant to have afterwards .

Towards the end he expressed the feeling of being somewhat overwhelmed by the dream and that afterwards it becomes a heavy load that just sags there. In doing this he expressed that that dreams left behind just become burdens us. Yet leaves is last line as a metaphor saying "or does it explode" giving us a while new way to look at it. By saying that he expressed that maybe the dream just disappears after we have had the dream leaving a forgotten feeling in its place.

In conclusion Langston Hughes shows ma yang different feelings about what he feels can possibly happen to a dream after it has accord.  These feelings range from being a dried up memory to one that is gone in an instant. Making it left for us to try and decide whether or not we too may have the same option of figuring out what exactly happens to a dream when you have had it and awake from it. Is it fogotten, left behind, thought about, made into a burden or may it just disappears from us forever.