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 …showed first 75 words of 527 total…

…showed last 75 words of 527 total…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”.