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A poem titled for these things compares “life” to a “broken-winged bird / that cannot fly” (20[3])and a “barren (20[1])field” without these things. (20[1])The lines “Good morning, daddy! Ain’t you heard?” (20[1])open (20[1])and close a long (20[1])poem (20[2])titled for a “Montage” of one of these (20[1])things. (20[6])A (20[1])collection titled for a (20[1])“Keeper” of these things included the poems “I, Too” and (*) “Mother (10[1])to (10[1])Son.” (10[1])It is hypothesized (10[1])that (10[1])one of these things “crust[s] and sugar[s] (10[1])over” (10[3])“like (10[1])a (10[1])syrupy (10[2])sweet” (10[1])in a 1951 poem in which it (10[1])also “fester[s] like a sore.” (10[1])Potential answers to a question about one of these things include “Does it stink like rotten meat?” and “does it explode?” For 10 points, Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem” asks what happens to one of what things (10[1])“deferred?” ■END■

ANSWER: dreams [accept a dream deferred; accept Montage of a Dream Deferred; accept The Dream Keeper]
<Ganon Evans, Literature - American - Poetry&gt; ~28692~ &lt;Editor: Chandler West>
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