In 1965, he was discharged from a ghetto school in Boston, in part because he read Langston Hughes’ poem “Ballad of the ... And she read about the “Dream Deferred.” And she read “Impasse ...
Widely considered his masterwork, Langston Hughes’s ‘Montage of a Dream Deferred’ draws on the modernist tradition ... to commemorate the drowning of the poet Edward King. As well as a great pastoral ...