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Grade 09 English: Raisin in the Sun

Resources to support Grade 09 English students

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Langston Hughes

Poem by Langston Hughes, "Harlem" (A Dream Deferred)

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?

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