CUET Preparation Today
Read the poem and answer the following question 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? |
| According to the poet, what is the fate of such deferred dreams? |
It vanishes It ends It is forgotten It reaches a state of decay |
| It reaches a state of decay |
| A discarded dream does not simply vanish, rather, it undergoes an evolution, approaching a physical state of decay. |
