Answer:
Comparison: Action: Image/feeling created:
a raising in the sun dried up dead, shriveled, withered
a sore to fester/to run infected, pus, disgusting
rotten meat to stink decomposing, smelly
a syrupy sweet to crust and sugar over delicious, crunchy, sweet
a heavy load to sag difficult, crumpled
------------------ to explode dangerous, final
Explanation:
This question is about the poem "Dream Deferred" by author Langston Hughes. Hughes was an important name in the African-American movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, which took place in the 1920s and 1930s. The poem's theme revolves around the oppression suffered by African Americans - an oppression that often suffocated, sometimes even killed their dreams. That is what Hughes explores with the comparisons he makes in the poem. A dream that is never fulfilled probably becomes something else - maybe just a beautiful, sweet thought, maybe a stinky, heavy bitterness.
