Identifying Five Main Ideas of Harlem - Essay Example

“Like Brown’s Southern Road, Montage of a dream deferred captures a fighting spirit produced in part effects of a war” (Tony Bolden). It is an expressive poem whose rhymes are irregular and it sums up the white repression of blacks in America.

A simile is used in the first verse of every question. “Like a raisin in the sun”, “like a rotten meat”, “like a syrupy sweet”, “like a sore” and “like a heavy load” are the five similes used in the poem. The writer uses a simile to compare the dream which is deferred with a raisin. According to the writer, if a raisin is left in the sun to dry, it becomes hard and shrivels; it loses its moisture and nutrition, similarly, if a dream is delayed to achieve it will not turn out as the person originally wished-for. Then if it is not dried up like a raisin it may “fester like a sore” it means that if a dream is postponed it irritates and festers like a sore, dissatisfaction and agitation of not fulfilling it may drive towards hitting back at those who are the cause of delaying it. The third possibility is that it may turn out to be like rotten meat, if meat is not used within a certain time it may turn bad and give a horrible smell likewise if a dream is not satisfied within a certain time it decomposes. Then if a syrupy sweet is unused for a long time forms crusts and as a result, it cannot be used same goes with a dream if a dream is not worked upon, negative thoughts may appear with the crust of anger and despair. Last but not least a person carrying a heavy load turns out to be gauche and clumsy in the same way a dream not fulfilled becomes heavy to tolerate and turns the person towards depression.