Dream Deffered: Simile

The speaker in the poem addresses the issues of dreams people don't pursue. He describes the outcomes that could impact the person through the use of similes. The images depicted in these similes carry a negative tone to them. The speaker, through these images, conveys the lingering emotions that may come when people don't pursue a dream. However, each question and statement is said with slight doubt. Each statement describes a negative affect of a deffered dream but then conveys that this affect may simply go away. What is the purpose of doing this? The final line seems significant in the sense that it supercedes all the other outcomes of a dream deffered. Asking if it explodes reveals that a dream deffered could affect a person so strongly that it could destroy their life. I think that this poem conveys that we should actively pursue our dreams in life and not simply give up on them without trying because we will never know how bad the burden of deffering our dreams may be looking back from our future.