Dream Deferred

This poem is saturated with rhetorical questions. The questions are not asking for answers, but making the reader think. It also is trying to prove a point. The rhetorical questions are there to ask what happens to dreams that are not followed or are not reached. However, none of the questions are positive. Therefore, the point of the poem is to express that unfollowed dreams only disperse in a negative way. They hurt the person who's dream it was or have a dying fate. The questions are completely necessary in order for the speaker to get the point across.