On the other hand if the poem is read with the title "Harlem" people automatically attach stereotypes to the name such as poverty and label it a black neighborhood where nothing good will come out of it. With the title "Harlem" the first line, "What happens to a dream deferred?" Has so much more meaning you can interpret dream to be the dream of the African Americans in general, a personal dream, the dream of Harlem to become more then it is at that time, and it can be generalized to fit the circumstances of that time. I associate the word dream with Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have A Dream" speech even though that was years to come. The last line, "OR does it explode?" has much more meaning with the title "Harlem" because later there was up-roar and riots, as if society were

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