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.
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<span>1 archaic : happy, pleased
2 archaic : inclined, desirous
3 a : willing
he was very fain, for the young widow was “altogether fair and lovely … ” — Amy Kelly
b : being obliged or constrained : compelled
Great Britain was fain to devote its whole energy … to the business of slaying and being slain — G. M. Trevelyan</span>
The annual New York City Marathon is the worlds largest marathon.
Avoidance during conflict is extremely unhealthy for sustaining positive relationships, as leaving a problem to boil and sit over is extremely unhealthy and only causes more anger.
