Answer:
The major theme of Langston Hughes’s Montages of a Dream Deferred is the deferred, or delayed, American dream of African Americans. The poem is about how African Americans failed to achieve their goals in time:
This year, maybe, do you think I can graduate?
I’m already two years late.Dropped out six months when I was seven,
a year when I was eleven,
then got put back when we come North.
To get through high high school at twenty's kind of late–
But maybe this year I can graduate.
The poem also depicts how African Americans had to keep postponing their needs with a hope that someday they would be able to obtain what they desired:
Maybe now I can have that white enamel stove
I dreamed about when we first fell in love
eighteen years ago.
But you know,
rooming and everything
then kids,
cold-water flat and all that.
But now my daughter’s married
And my boy's most grown–
quit school to work
and where we're moving
there ain't no stove–
Maybe I can buy that white enamel stove!
However, despite their deferred dreams, the poem shows the refusal of African Americans to give up easily and let go of their dreams of a better life. Their dreams may have been delayed, but they did not lose hope.
Explanation:
From Plato :)
