<p>What are some good poems you guys like that reveals either the American Dream, love, change, or struggle?</p>
<p>the raisin one! you know! a raisin dries up in the sun! by that guy! can't think of name of poem or author! Oh langston hughes, a raisin in the sun! yay :D</p>
<p>Harlem: A Dream Deferred</p>
<p>What happens to a dream deferred?</p>
<p>Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun
Or fester like a sore</p>
<p>And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over</p>
<p>Like a syrupy sweet?</p>
<p>Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.</p>
<p>Or does it explode?</p>
<p>What a horrible poem. I had to write a bs'ed 10 pg essay on that.</p>
<p>I agree. A lot of poems gain notoriety for simply sucking.</p>
<p>I don't understand that poem at all. Anyone else?</p>
<p>"The Red Wheelbarrel" by William Carlos Williams:</p>
<p>so much depends
upon</p>
<p>a red wheel
barrow</p>
<p>glazed with rain
water</p>
<p>beside the white
chickens.</p>
<p>I cant. Dont even know the point.</p>
<p>Go look up "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry.</p>
<p>No, i dont trust you. All poems suck.</p>
<p>What?10characters</p>
<p>Nothing, dont worry about it.</p>
<p>A good one for change/struggle if you ask me</p>
<p>Before the World Intruded
By Michele Rosenthal</p>
<p>Return me to those infant years,
before I woke from sleep,</p>
<p>when ideas were oceans crashing,
my dreams blank shores of sand.</p>
<p>Transport me fast to who I was
when breath was fresh as sight,</p>
<p>my new parts unfragmented
shielded faith from unkind light.</p>
<p>Draw for me a figure whole, so different
from who I am. Show me now</p>
<p>this picture: who I was
when I began.</p>
<p><em>baffled</em> I should've gotten a 100 on my poetry portfolio project if this BS is considered acceptable poetry.</p>
<p>lil_killer...</p>
<p>basically, the moral of the poem is...pursue your dreams or it'll come back to bite you in the ass...I think</p>
<p>that poem was chosen by the library of congress as an exemplary specimen to teach poetry to high school students
it may not be yeats or shelley
but every poem has meaning
regardless of whether you like it or not</p>
<p>LOL. I liked the poem posted by lastcall17.</p>
<p>lastcall, I didn't mean the one you posted was BS. the other ones were.</p>
<p>well arctic_monkey didn't
i was hoping just to enlighten him</p>
<p>just pick a poem from shell silverstein :p</p>
<p>oh...well, bad timing i guess
and now you know what the library of congress thinks about it
so
all good :D</p>