Langston Hughes - analysis of Dream Deferred

The poem, "Dream Deferred", which was written by Langston Hughes in 1951 , described the trials that minorities in that time period underwent. Hughes uses heavy symbolism and imagery in this poem. The dream he discussed in the poem was futile at the time of his writing of the poem. In the poem, "Dream Deferred", the author uses a significant amount of symbolism to express the broken dream of racial equality. The question Hughes poses in line …

…symbolism expressed the dream of racial equality. It illustrated the condition of a dream put on hold indefinitely. This poem was also put into the beginning of the play, "Raisin In the Sun", which also describes the battle for racial equality. The poem, "Dream Deferred", can be related to any dream, even if it is not the dream Hughes was writing about. A dream deferred is a dream that is on the road to self-destruction.