Write a paragraph in response to each of the following three prompts:
Why does Hughes title his poem Harlem?
What is a deferred dream? What, according to Hughes, happens to a deferred dream? Do you agree/disagree? Why/why not?
Why do you think Lorraine Hansberry chose this poem as an epigraph for A Raisin in the Sun? Where do you see evidence of deferred dreams in Act I?
