Harlem (Dream Deferred)

I thought this poem was especially strong just because of how much it said with so few words. There's only 52 words in the entire poem. That's shorter than the majority of my posts here, yet I believe it's far more profound than anything I've written here as well. Hughes wants the reader to think of dreams as real, physical, tangible things: a difficult task at times, but this way they're harder to forget about and harder to just push aside. He knew the value of having dreams.