The second question of the poem related to saccination like ulcer paints a strange image of readers, which can help them to be strongly with the disgust that Hughes feels, at the time he wrote this poem, slaves were free for nearly ninety years, yet they have not been treated equally, this is his postponed dream, he compares his disappointment to the wound that worsens and is displaced, giving his readers a comprehensive understanding of the depths of his disgust.