Dream Deferred

“Dream Deferred” pp. 87; #1
1. The last and most important image that is used is ‘explode’, which gives the reader a shock in a way. This is because in the beginning of the poem the author used cringing writing, or disgusting writing, next the writer uses a calm and soft tone that is used, and all of a sudden the writer uses ‘explode’ as a word to catch you again, as if he was trying to awake you with his writing.