The speaker's tone in "Harlem" is best described as frustrated.
The poem's imagery helps to convey this tone. In discussing a deferred dream, Hughes describes a dried up raisin in the sun; a festering sore; stinking, rotting meat; and a sagging, heavy load. At the end of the poem, he wonders if the deferred dream just explodes.
This imagery helps provide the key to understanding the speaker's attitude, or tone, about his subject, the deferred dream. He is frustrated that these dreams are wasted.
Answer:
After the song, Wealhtheow, Hrothgar 's queen, offers the gold mead cup to Hrothgar and tells him to be generous to Beowulf and the other Geats. She then turns to her nephew Hrothulf and her sons Hrethic and Hrothmund, who are sitting next to Beowulf.She reminds her nephew that Hrothgar took him in when he was a child, and says she knows Hrothulf will repay her sons well.
Explanation:
A short biography of Edmund Spenser included his plan to write the a certain poem which he supposed to be 12 books long. The title of the poem is The Faerie Queen. However, when Spenser died on January 13, 1599, only half of his work was finished.
