Dream Deferred

“Dream Deferred” is a stimulating poem that addresses the possible consequences that could result from deferring a dream. The author explores what might happen through highly effective visual similes and metaphors. The importance of this short poem relates to the time it was written (1951) and the ethnic background of the author (African-American). A dream is synonymous to hope, desire, goal and fantasy--something that all African-Americans in 1951 had. The speaker is the author himself and he …showed first 75 words of 570 total…

…showed last 75 words of 570 total…Los Angeles Riots. This short poem tastefully displays the disappointed feeling of a poet, who exposes deferred dreams as the reason for societal frustrations. Almost everything we have achieved individually or as a society was once a dream. Whenever things don’t go as we want them to go, we can label them as deferred dreams, but every time the “select few” defer the rights and “dreams” of minorities we can label it social injustice.