Some images from" A Dream Deferred" including a different, less disgusting picture.

These are some images that the poem brings to mind.

Langston Hughes Dream Deferred

This poem is part of a book-long poem. It's usually called "A Dream Deferred" but sometimes called Harlem.

Harlem

BY LANGSTON HUGHES

What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up

      like a raisin in the sun?

      Or fester like a sore—

      And then run?

      Does it stink like rotten meat?

      Or crust and sugar over—

      like a syrupy sweet?

      Maybe it just sags

      like a heavy load.

      Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes, “Harlem” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted with the permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

https://vimeo.com/1303240




This is a very short biography of the poet.

https://vimeo.com/8257667
Dream Deferred

You Tube 

Langston Hughes reads his poem--Dreams begins at :37.

"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks

Listen, again and again, to the author read her poem. Think about what she says and how she says it. Then answer these questions here in the blog as a comment.  Please edit and spellcheck your writing before you post. This is an ACADEMIC FORUM not Facebook!

1. What does she say the word "jazz" means? 
2. What did other people think she meant by that word? 
3. What was thinking as she wrote it? 
4. Is she pleased that her poem is so famous? Why or why not? 
5. What does the poem really say about the choices that those boys made?
6. How does the last line make you feel?

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15433


Listen to "Summertime" and other songs by the famous jazz and blues musician Charlie Parker while you answer these questions. This will get you in the mood that the pool players were in-just don't skip school.
(I didn't login to listen to music, I just typed in Charlie Parker. You don't have to sign in either. Then a few different songs, all the same style played for a while. This is early experimental blues and jazz. )

http://www.jango.com/music/Charlie+Parker?l=0

The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

This is a short but very complex poem which MUST be read aloud.
I know that you can do better than Superman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzk8E_RKeQ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn8d3sVc8A&feature=colike

This is a hunt between the eagle and a goat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VklTs-Tid_I



http://10000birds.com/alfred-lord-tennysons-the-eagle.htm

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174589

This is a website that has more poems by the same poet.

There's a cute but hairy baby eagle and mother.
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/creaturefeature/baldeagle/

crag--a rock
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/crag
 Use a pronunciation dictionary site and your dictionary to improve your accent.