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…showed last 75 words of 1616 total…powerful image that develops with each poem and links one poem to the next. Hughes communicates the dejection of blacks in Harlem with great clarity and precision. The feelings that accompany the theme range from foreboding to anger to gloom, creating a sense of each in the reader. Hughes' poems are an effective comment on the experiences of blacks in Harlem and the dream that they share: a dream that, though deferred, still exists.