Harlem | Langston Hughes: An Introduction to the Poetry
This essay discusses the uses of theme and language of Hughes poem ''Montage of a Dream Deferred,'' as well as the imagery and connotation of the words he chooses.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) is more carefully orchestrated than Hughes's earlier volumes because conceived as a unity, as one continuous poem, although it is organized in sections and subtitles just like the others, and uses single poems previously published in periodicals. In Montage the days of our black lives are telescoped into one day and one night. Montage is primarily a technique of the motion picture, its camera eye sweeping swiftly from scene to scene, juxtaposing disparate scenes in rapid succession or superimposing one scene (layer of film) over...
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