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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



“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men” (Fitzgerald, 2).

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"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" (Martin Luther King Jr., 1963)

"Bob Dylan's Dream" 1963

While riding on a train goin' west <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I feel asleep for take my a rest <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I dreamed a dream that make me sad <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">With half-damp eyes I stared to the room <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Where we together weathered many a storm <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Laughin' and singing 'till the early hours of the morn'.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Our words were told, our songs were songs <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Where we longed for nothin' and were satisfied <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Joking and talking about the world outside.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">With haunted hearts through the heat and cold <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> We never thought we could ever get very old <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> We thought we could sit forever in fun <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Our chances really was a million to one.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">As easy it was to tell black from white <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It was all that easy to tell wrong from right <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> And our choices they were few and the thought never hit <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">How many a year has passed and gone <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Many a gamble has been lost and won <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> And many a road taken by many a first friend <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> And each one I've never seen again.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">I wish, I wish, I wish in vain <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> That we could sit simply in that room again <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.



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