A “Dream Deferred” in “Harlem”

Introduction to Literature 131 A “Dream Deferred” in “Harlem” As a child growing up everyone seems to have the ideal life set in their mind. You know what you want to do with your life; you know everything there is to know. Or do you? Dreams start out simple and later grow complex. At a young age you look up to people in your life and want to be just like them and want to marry …

…just by the change of the title the reader can obtain a whole new meaning from the words. Through this writing you can see the important of all aspects of a poem. The title alone in this poem sets up your frame of mind for the rest of the poem. Even the words tend to take on a whole new meaning. Just as dreams carry a whole new meaning, that is unless they are “deferred”.