Question

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?

List 3 ways conflict is taking place in the poem.

Answer 1

1. The author wants to know how a dream can be held back, or deferred.

2. The author uses disturbing imagery to ask what a deferred dream looks like.

3. The imagery used here all seems to be negative.

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