What literary device or devices does Langston Hughes use in the poem? How does the device or devices contribute or emphasize the theme of the poem? Explain.

Explanation:

"A Dream Deferred" or "Harlem" is the poem written by Langston Hughes in 1951. The poem consists of rhetorical devices such as simile, metaphor, and rhyme.

The title of the poem "Harlem" suggests the theme of the poem of the deferred dream of African Americans, who are kept from the dream of social equality and civil rights.

The rhetorical device, simile, that's been extensively used in the poem, helps in the development of this theme by comparing the deferred dreams to various objects.

In the first line, the deferred dream is compared to a dried raisin. This suggests that a dream deferred or denied does not evaporate or die but remains there, though in a dried state, lifeless.

In the second line, a deferred dream is compared to a festering sore. This means that a dream denied starts giving pain just like a sore that starts festering.

In the same manner, Hughes has used simile to compare and give a picture of how bad it looks like when a dream is denied. When a dream of social equality and civil rights is denied to African Americans.

The metaphor is used in the last line of the poem "Or does it explode." This use of metaphor develops the theme further that when a dream is continuously denied it explodes like a bomb. This suggests the anger of the dreamer whose dream is denied continuously that it explodes finally in various forms.

honestly, school in itself just seems to be a huge waste of time. a lot of people graduate but still end up not doing anything in college anyways, which really makes the whole point of graduating seem useless. i'd rather not bring anyone's hopes up then. what i'd recommend is for whoever's reading this to simply drop out.

i mean, kanye did it. he said something along the lines of, "don't let society tell you what to do." now, he's obviously a very successful person, and since his album is called the college dropout i guess he never really had to go through all that nonsense in order to become a millionaire. the same goes for anyone else then.

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