"Dream Deferred"
After learning that this poem was written during the Civil Rights movement, it made perfect sense. They had so much to lose by letting their dreams fall behind. Each way that Hughes describes a dream ending shows a different outcome. If they decided not to use peaceful means to win rights and just let themselves be controlled by America's overwhelming white population, anger would have taken them over. It is only human nature to resent those people who oppress you. Things would have ended much differently and probably less successfully had they not went forward at the time they did. America was in a wave of change, electronics making life simpler, a new attitude of freedom taking over as the 1960's were ushered in. And although this poem does relate so well to Civil Rights, it can apply to any unrealized dream. It could be a personal dream, something that one individual had hoped to accomplish. That is why this poem is so dynamic.
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