In a 1996 essay on Langston Hughes' Collected Poems in the New Republic, Helen Vendler, one of America's top poetry critics, echoed Rampersad’s point when she said that most of his poems are accessible to anyone who can read, and even the more allusive ones generally mention events that were, at the time, in the daily newspapers ...
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In addition, when mentioning of Hughes’ masterpiece “ The Negro Speak of Rivers”, Kevin Powell, writer, founding staff member and former senior writer for Vibe magazine who helped introduce the hip-hop generation to Hughes' work, noted, “Any group can relate to that piece. If you're an immigrant coming from Ireland or Italy, or a Jew who has escaped Nazi Germany, or if you're a woman, you can relate to that piece _ or if you're gay or lesbian, or obviously if you're African-American"...
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Langston Hughes, Dream Deferred Hughes asks the question, "Does it [the dream] dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?"(2-3) The comparison of the dream to a raisin shows how a dream that is put off changes dramatically and will not turn out as the person originally intended...	3 / 586
Analysis of "Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes As I looked at each question I found out what those affects are. Hughes's offers a possibility of negative affects within the poem by using a raisin as symbolism...	3 / 611
langston hughes Langston Hughes "What happens to a dream deferred?", is the question asked at the beginning of the poem. The speaker uses powerful comparisons in his rhetorical questions that follow the opening line...	1 / 253
Analysis of Langston Hughes' Harlem (Dream Deferred): Like the raisin, the dream has been on hold for a long time-consequently, it has transformed into something very different than it once was. Because they look so different, few people would believe that raisins were once grapes unless they had been told...	2 / 395