Langston Hughes Response " A Dream Deferred" by ella

I think that he is trying to say that people give up on their dream and that they don't follow through and let it die. But that's what i think and i also think at the part where it says " or crust over like a syrupy sweet" it means that their dream is a really good dream but it's to hard to acopmlish and then you forget about it. I think this poem is completly true and that's why it's famous. I still like it though because it's reality.

Response to " I know why the caged birds sing" by Maya Angelou

     In my perspective i think that she could be talking about slavery because the feeling of being captured and in a cage and can't do anything but dream and wish they were somewhere else. It seems really sad and depressing almost like the author knows the feeling and she is expressing it through words. The bird seems really scared and contained and small. if its talking about slavery it's sort of saying that the birds wants freedom and can't have it but is dreaming.

Abstract poem

love is all of your family and friends smiling and having the best of times together.
hate is a bad guy coming into your house taking everything and ruining the feeling of "safe" for you.
Friendship is laughing at your best friend when they fall and when they get up you trip them again.
Funniness is watching one of your friends make a complete fool of themselves in front of everyone.
Anger is a person beating the living daylights out of punching bag 
Excitement is the feeling of when your about to open a really big present!
Jealousy is the ugliest trait