2. How does all of the imagery add up to answering the question put forth
by the speaker in line one, "What happens to a dream deferred?" What
does a dream deferred look like?

Langston Hughes uses the elements of imagery and rhetorical question to foreshadow the destructive consequences of unfulfilled dreams. Particularly, the dream in question, and the subject of his poem, is the dream of survival, freedom, and personal happiness for all African Americans who are still living under oppressive circumstances.

Langston Hughes's poem is filled with dark images of decay and destruction. He uses a series of similes that compare dreams to raisins that "dry up," sores that "fester" and "run," and "rotten meat" that "stinks." He speaks of syrup that "crusts over."

Then he hints at the physical exhaustion that comes from one not fulfilling one's dreams when he uses the simile "it just sags like a heavy load."

The comparisons he makes are phrased in the form of rhetorical questions. This means that the speaker is not really asking a question, but making a point. His point becomes most clearly made in his final question, "or does it explode?"

Hughes's last question presents many destructive possibilities. These possibilities are in fact the answer to the central question that the poem poses. One is that African Americans will self-destruct by actions that harm themselves and their individual lives and neighborhoods. Another, more violent possibility is that African Americans will rebel and do whatever it takes for society to give them the freedoms and chances for opportunity that they truly deserve. The idea of an explosion seems to imply that these actions may involve bloodshed, violence, or destruction.

While the poem is generally understood in a civil rights context, if one takes the poem as a statement on humans as a whole, it seems to say that each individual needs the rights and abilities to pursue their own aspirations and lead their best life. When these possibilities are denied, catastrophic consequences will follow.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

- free verse.

- " in poetry, one of the best ways to practice technique is to write in. i want all to be unstressed so that “all the clocks” and “in the night” are matching anapests. many forms that sharpen skills are useful in free verse."