What is the theme of this poem “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes? ?
The poem is about racism. Langston Hughes was a black writer, one of the most important literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance. He was writing at a time when black Americans were still suffering the injustice of Jim Crow laws and the cruelty of frequent lynchings and other Ku Klux Klan terrorism. The dream he’s talking about in this poem is the dream of freedom and equality for African Americans. The poem asks how a people might react if they have cherished a dream for many generations but the dream has not yet come true.