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.