A Dream Differed

This poem is a piece of modernism because it is showing the element of disillusion. The reason I say this is because the author is showing that the American Dream is not what everybody thinks it is. That some people who are doing good think that everybody else is also, but this is not the case because a lot of African Americans had to put their dreams on hold and the longer it stays on hold the more rotten it gets. The author says in one part "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun"? He also is saying that the longer it sits it starts to loose everything about itself.