Hughes encouraged his audience to not settle for less or what society portrays you as, but to be the best you can possible be.
Harlem
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load
Or does it explode?
Hughes took the bad experiences and made good poetry with it,
Hughes used satire as his tool to get readers to understand and even laugh at some of the more serious controversial topics. He had a way of bring the good out of bad situations.
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