Answer:
"What Happens to a Dream Deferred" is written in a third-person point of view.
Explanation:
By Langston Hughes, the poem "What Happens to a Dream Deferred" asks a troubling question: when dreams do not come true, what happens to them? The speaker offers some possibilities, always interrogating. Does the dream rot, dry up, or explode? All the while, the speaker uses a third-person perspective. At no point in the poem does he use first person pronouns, such as "I", "we", "my", "us", etc., which would be an indicative of first-person point of view. He only talks about the dream that never came to fruition, asking what happens to it.
