Question

Why was the poem Harlem significant to the black community? Discuss the main theme of the poem......

Answer 1

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Harlem” Summary

The speaker asks what happens to a vision or hope of a community, when this vision or hope is continuously put off or delayed.

The speaker asks: will that dream wither away and shrivel up like fruit left out in the sun? Or will it putrefy like a painful, infected wound and then leak out pus? Will it smell disgusting, like meat that's gone bad? Or will it become like a gooeycandy that gets all crusty and crystallized?

The speaker proposes a fifth possibility: that the unfulfilled dream will simply weigh the dreamers down as they have to continue to bear it.

Finally, the speaker offers a last alternative: maybe the dream will burst outward with energy and potency, demanding to be recognized and accounted for.

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