The start of the poems...

In the poem Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes we see many similes that we don't usually use to describe dreams. The way Langston approaches images of a raisin, a sore, rotten meat, syrup sweet, and a heavy load are quite bizarre and seem a little appalling. Speaking of a dream as a "raisin in the sun" to me is like saying that you sucked all of the passion and beauty out of a dream, just like the sun condenses the grapes' juices in order for it to become a raisin. Also, a dream  "fester[ing] like a sore" sounds painful. It seems that the question "Or fester like a sore.." is asking if you had a nightmare, not a dream. Dreams are meant to be beautiful, not painful and blistery. Continuing with the poem, it goes on to ask if the dream deferred "stinks like rotten meat". This personification of the dream smelling makes no sense to me. Besides the inability to smell a dream, what makes you think that it would be so horrible as to smell like rotten meat? Again, I believe Langston is talking about a nightmare not a put off dream. Lastly, Langston asks if the dream if like a syrupy sweet or a heavy load. In both instances, these descriptions of the stopped dream make me realize that maybe putting off the dream is what is causing all of these questions. The thought of the dream being put off until a later time is what causes these horrible thoughts of Langston's dreams.