Inception comes into play in my blogs. in Dream Deferred, the dreams are of a different caliber, I think, but I hear "dream" and I think "Inception" (it's like those silly little word association games they have you do sometimes just for fun).
so what does happen to a dream when it's not allowed to come to fruition? I personally think that it does more harm than good. it's a good way to let frustration and regret and guilt build. this, of course depends on the severity of the dream being withheld though. obviously if a dream is ridiculously far-fetched and forgotten through a maturing process, it's not really a bad thing. oppositely, a dream that is created or thought of in a sensible way using logic and good judgment and then forgotten or smothered is likely to harbor some unsafe feelings. that is where the "drying up", "festering", "stinking", "crusting", "sagging" dreams come in: when they've been deferred and are of high-caliber.
another interesting aspect of this poem is the use of simile to describe/suggest all the other options save the separated, italicized, metaphor-ized (is that even a word?) last line. "Or does it explode? seems to suggest what the speaker really feels happens to these dreams that are allowed to fall to the wayside. in an indirect way, he urges the reader to avoid that. by using the image of a bomb (or other object that explodes), he provides a destructive, violent sense of the danger that comes with not chasing after a dream.
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