Hansberry, Lorraine: 1930-1965
A Raisin in the Sun, 1959 - Title
- The title is taken from a line in Langston Hughes' poem 'A Dream Deferred'
- What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
- What happens to a dream deferred?