# 10/11
This poem has some very interesting imagery. Five of the six images are similes. The last image, "Or does it explode?" is a metaphor. Langston wants to give the reader a mental image of what will happen when a dream is put off and pushed aside. I think it is very important that the first four images are posed as rhetorical questions to the reader. Hughes is trying to make his audience see this image and visually imagine what will happen if people do not act upon their dreams. One will keep thinking about their dream and it will start to bug them. Also, once the prime time for the dream to be put in action passes, the chance for change and new experience is lost. Maybe it will even start to become sugarcoated and bring the dreamer down. Maybe, just maybe, it will explode and affect everyone around it and associated with it.
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