The verse form by Langston negotiations about the destiny of dreams that are ne’er fulfilled. The verse form is a metaphorical word picture of the letdown of the ‘black population’ in Harlem. In the verse form the dream refers to the hopes of the black people which were chance. better populating conditions & A ; freedom from racism. However the outlooks were dashed by conditions of overpopulation & A ; development. In the verse form. Langston describes the destiny of an unrealized dream by comparing it to a raisin that shrivels in the Sun and finally disappears. Here the Sun represents clip.
The unrealized dream may go a nauseating reminder of 1s failure by ‘stinking like icky meat’ or it may merely crust over with sugar. This last statement here means that society may cover unmet ends with a head covering of normality. The act is superficial because on the surface the job may look to hold disappeared. However it would ever stay since the root cause was ne’er eradicated. The last line “Or does it detonate? ” is rather baleful and as it highlights the badness of a postponed dream. Here the poet compares the laden black people who have been denied yet another dream as a clicking bomb ready to detonate.
