Title: Harlem (poem)
Content:  "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred") is a poem by Langston Hughes. These eleven lines ask, "What happens to a dream deferred?", providing reference to the African-American experience. It was published as part of a longer volume-length poem suite in 1951 called Montage of a Dream Deferred, but is often excerpted from the larger work. The play A Raisin in the Sun was titled after a line in the poem.
Title: Montage of a Dream Deferred
Content:  Montage of a Dream Deferred is a book-length poem suite published by Langston Hughes in 1951. Its jazz poetry style focuses on scenes over the course of a 24-hour period in Harlem (a neighborhood of New York City) and its mostly African-American inhabitants. The original edition was 75 pages long and comprised 91 individually titled poems, which were intended to be read as a single long poem. Hughes' prefatory note for the book explained his intentions in writing the collection: "In terms of current Afro-American popular music and the sources from which it progressed—jazz, ragtime, swing, blues, boogie-woogie, and be-bop—this poem on contemporary Harlem, like be-bop, is marked by conflicting changes, sudden nuances, sharp and impudent interjections, broken rhythms, 
Title: Montage of a Dream Deferred
Content:  poetry. The poem is divided into five sections (although some editions contain six); each section represents a different time of day in Harlem, moving from dawn through the night to the dawn of the following day. The poem begins and ends with the same two lines: "Good morning, daddy! / Ain't you heard?" Montage of a Dream Deferred was Langston Hughes' first major publication following the end of World War II. Its themes include the subjugation of the black community, African-American racial consciousness and history, and the need for social change to resolve the injustices faced by the residents of Harlem. One of the most famous individual poems in the book are the eleven lines known as "Harlem".
Title: Harlem (poem)
Content:  The first line of "Harlem" asks "What happens to a dream deferred?" and the following ten lines work to answer the question. Hughes first asks four questions (such as "Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?"), presents a conjecture ("Maybe it just sags/like a heavy load.") and ends with a final question ("Or does it explode?").
Title: Montage of a Dream Deferred
Content:  passages sometimes in the manner of a jam session, sometimes the popular song, punctuated by the riffs, runs, breaks, and disc-tortions of the music of a community in transition." The primary motif of the poem is the "dream deferred", which represents the opposition between Harlem of the 1950s and the rest of the world. Other motifs include boogie-woogie and discrimination against African Americans. The poem is characterized by its use of the montage, a cinematic technique of quickly cutting from one scene to another in order to juxtapose disparate images, and its use of contemporary jazz modes like boogie-woogie, bop and bebop, both as subjects in the individual short poems and as a method of structuring and writing 
Title: Harlem (poem)
Content:  Langston Hughes was an American poet. Hughes was a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance and wrote poetry that focused on the Black experience in America. The poem was published in Hughes's book Montage of a Dream Deferred in 1951. The book includes over ninety poems that are divided into five sections. "Harlem" occurs in the fifth section, which is titled "Lenox Avenue Mural". The poems in the book were intended to be read as one long poem, but "Harlem" is often read by itself.
Title: Harlem (poem)
Content:  The poem's central question has been described as "one of American poetry’s most famous questions". Scott Challener considers Hughes's questions to be "urgent, embodied questions" that presents imagery of neglect while "provoking the senses". He notes that "Dreams here are not these overexposed things per se but are imagined to be like them and subject to the same forces—they are both visceral and vulnerable, and altogether too much. Dreams, like history, hurt. By implication, they demand care—and all the work that care entails." Challener feels that the final line "Or does it explode?" is abrupt and dramatic, which could be emblematic of race riots such as the Harlem riot of 1935 and Harlem riot of 1943, but might also refer to movements of population like the Great Migration and breaking down of misconceptions. The scholar N. Michelle Murray notes that the dream itself is never named.
Title: Langston Hughes
Content: The Weary Blues, Knopf, 1926 ; Fine Clothes to the Jew, Knopf, 1927 ; The Negro Mother and Other Dramatic Recitations, 1931 ; Dear Lovely Death, 1931 ; The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Knopf, 1932 ; Scottsboro Limited: Four Poems and a Play, Golden Stair Press, N.Y., 1932 ; A New Song (1938, incl. the poem "Let America be America Again") ; Note on Commercial Theatre, 1940 ; Shakespeare in Harlem, Knopf, 1942 ; Freedom's Plow, New York: Musette Publishers, 1943 ; Jim Crow's Last Stand, Atlanta: Negro Publication Society of America, 1943 ; Lament for Dark Peoples and Other Poems, 1944 ; Fields of Wonder, Knopf, 1947 ; One-Way Ticket, 1949 ; Montage of a Dream Deferred, Holt, 1951 ; Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, 1958 ; Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, Hill & Wang, 1961 ; The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times, 1967 ; The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Knopf, 1994 
Title: Long poem
Content:  of India during the famous Hungryalist movement in 1960s. A montage is similar to a collage in that it consists of many voices, most famously portrayed in Langston Hughes' Montage of a Dream Deferred. The poet provides a comprehensive portrait of 20th century Harlem through the use of numerous different voices and thus creates a cohesive whole through this fragmentary lens. What is perhaps the most debatable characteristic of this collage/montage form is the question of what is added to the message or content of the poem by using a more fragmented view. This debate is clearly visible within Langston Hughes' Montage in the question of who the primary voice belongs to and what is added by having Harlem shown through multiple people, as opposed to Hughes simply speaking from his own understanding of what makes Harlem.
Title: Hesitation Blues
Content:  At the beginning of his poem sequence Ask Your Mama, Langston Hughes says: "The traditional folk melody of the 'Hesitation Blues' is the leitmotif for this poem." Throughout the poem, Hughes placed musical direction for the poem on the right margin of each page. The direction calls for performance of song several times in the poem sequence. In his biography of Hughes, Arnold Rampersad says the song's chorus, which asks, "How long must I have to wait?" emphasizes Hughes's impatience with the progress of the civil rights movement.

Question: what does a dream deferred by langston hughes?
Answer: Dreams and Youth.