he United States. This poem is a basic overview of the ancestry of Langston's past.
             Another one of Langston's most infamous poems is entitled A Dream Deferred. A Dream Deferred is a poem that attempts to answer the question: "What happens to a dream deferred?" This poem takes the abstract idea of deferring a dream, or pushing a dream aside, and gives it physical consequences. Langston questions the possibility of a dream deferred drying up like a raisin does when place in the sun for too long. A second possibility pondered by Hughes, is if a dream deferred
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