In Langston Hughes’s “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”, the poem talks about how something can easily be washed away. The poem relies on the literary element theme to show how waiting too long for something can eventually disappear or not be there no more. It also shows another literary element in imagery.
Throughout the poem it shows the theme on how something can easily disappear. In this poem talks about how something could be a dream but years after years later, it is not really a goal anymore. It was just a want a not really a need, and then outside things kept on happening and setbacks. It is now more important things in life. Like family, work, school, personal life, and health. And now that dream