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By Langston Hughes. 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?
A Raisin In The Sun - Lorraine Hansberry - full text of play.pdf - Google Drive.
Langston Hughes. 1901 –. 1967. 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?
Hughes first asks four questions (such as "Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?"), presents a conjecture ("Maybe it just sags/like a heavy load.") and ends with a final question ("Or does it explode?"
One of the most famous poems penned by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Written in 1951, this poem was the inspiration for Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play A Raisin in the Sun.
The poem’s fame and enduring public life, for instance, owe much to the playwright Lorraine Hansberry, whose play A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway in 1959 and became an overnight success. Hansberry took the title of her play from Hughes’s poem and used it as an epigraph in the playbill and in the book version of the play as well.
Where consonance appears in the poem: Line 1: “dream,” “deferred”. Line 2: “Does,” “dry”. Line 3: “raisin,” “sun”. Line 4: “fester,” “sore”. Line 5: “run”. Line 6: “it,” “stink,” “like,” “rotten,” “meat”. Line 7: “Or,” “crust,” “sugar,” “over”. Line 8: “like,” “syrupy ...
Harlem / Langston Hughes / 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.
“HARLEM” -- Langston Hughes. 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?
Does it try up like a raisin in the sun, shrivelling away and losing something of itself? Or does it grow putrid and infected, like a sore (on a body) from which pus runs? And does the dream come to smell like rotten meat?