Essay --

There is a beautiful marriage between technique and meaning in poetry. If one can fully probe the chassis of poetry one will see this marriage. Their mind will be seduced by the words, their heart ensnares by its gist, and finally by way of the verse literary devices can be captured involuntarily. A great model of the midpoint of this relationship is the classic poem Harlem by Langston Hughes. In this poem, the causation approaches the widely distributed despair of imagines being deferred and underlines the fallouts of it. His precise techniques that influence this poem help it come to the fore into a metaphorical warning statement about dreams becoming ignore in life. The authors specific uses of similes and metaphors allows for interpretation by his readers regarding the chief(prenominal) idea behind his poem, and in this essay I will picture how these literary techniques help to ameliorate the authors meaning.The use of similes in Harlem creates a serious mood and empha sizes the theme. In the beginning of the poem the author asks a question about what will happen to a dream when deferred. The simile...