The tone set by the poem's imagery brings out a sense of disappointment along with frustration with the dream. In the opening response of lines 2-3, “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” the poet makes a comparison that evokes the pain of becoming a withered and distorted representation of the dream. Of all the many possibilities the dream could have gone, it chooses to move in the direction of irritation to set the tone of the poem. Langston gives off a feeling of discontent with the imaginary connotation he gives in lines 4-5, “Or fester like a wound and then run away?” His writing direction veers towards the anguish of the dream itself when the image depicts the frustration of African American culture; this will will begin to grow and eventually spill out of the black community. In line 6 he uses the image of rotten meat, “…it smells like rotten meat.” The use of this image presents the dream as a disgusting piece of meat to show that the dream could be tainted by a wrong state of mind. Once again, the words used show the tone of irritation the poet has. Mr. Hughes continues his writing by describing the crust and sugar of a syrupy dessert, "Or the crust and sugar, like a sugary dessert." The pace of the poem begins to slow after the mention of the syrup and due to the syllables dropping from 7 in the previous