Advertisement - Guide continues below Show Harlem Line 1What happens to a dream deferred?
Line 2Does it dry up
Line 3like a raisin in the sun?
Line 4Or fester like a sore—
Line 5And then run?
Line 6Does it stink like rotten meat?
Line 7Or crust and sugar over –
Line 8like a syrupy
sweet?
Line 9Maybe it just sags
Line 10like a heavy load.
Line 11Or does it explode?
More on Harlem (Dream Deferred) Navigation Tired of ads?Join today and never see them again. What is compared to a sore in Or fester like a sore?The poem suggests that the deferred dream could “dry up” or “fester like a sore”; it might “stink like rotten meat … Or crust and sugar over / like a syrupy sweet." Each of these images suggests something spoiling, losing potency, or outright decaying—which is perhaps exactly the outcome a racist society, hoping to ...
What does fester mean in a poem?transitive verb. : to make inflamed or corrupt. fester. noun.
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun Or fester like a sore meaning?He continues by stating this simile:"Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" Using this simile he is stating that dreaming can be good or bad. A raisin is a grape that has been dehydrated by the sun. Hughes is conveying that dreams can suck the life out of a person, mentally dehydrating them.
What does fester mean in A Dream Deferred?fester like a sore- And then run: meaning a pus that is formed in the body due to delay in treatment. stink like rotten meat: meat if kept for long starts giving bad smell or odor.
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