In our journey through life, we all have certain expectations of how we would like our lives to be. All of us strive to reach a certain level of self-actualization and acceptance. It could then be said that all of us live a dream. Some of these individual dreams inevitably become the collective dream of many people. In "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)," Langston Hughes makes use of symbolism as well as powerful sensory imagery to …showed first 75 words of 818 total…

…showed last 75 words of 818 total…dream, which disproves Allen's assumtion. Each image gets stronger.Then there is the quiet before the storm. Finally the urge to realize the dream gets too strong, and erupts into chaos, just like an explosion. WORKS CITED Hughes, Langston. "Harlem." The Panther and the Lash. New York: Knopf, 1951. Olson, Charles. "Projective Verse." The New American Poetry. Ed. Donald M. Allen. New York: Grove, 1960. Thrall, William Flint, et al. A Handbook to Literature. New York: Odyssey, 1960.