1. According to the article, who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
According to the article, Gwendolyn Brooks is a poet who had grown up during the migration, she had moved from Kansas to Chicago as an infant. Her first collection of poetry was based on her neighborhood in Bronzeville.
2. According to the article, who is Langston Hughes?
Langston Hughes is a famous poet and was a part of the Harlem Renaissance. He spent some time living in Chicago, in 1949, he went to the University of Chicago Laboratory School for three months about poetry.
3. Both Hughes and Brookes wrote about “kitchenettes” in Bronzeville. According to the article, what is a “kitchenette”? Hughes also wrote about “restrictive contracts”. What were they and what was the effect …show more content…
Landlords would divide up larger apartments into smaller ones to fit more people. In that cramped one-roomed area they could be occupied by big families. Bathrooms and kitchens were not included in these one-roomed rooms. There were restrictive covenants that restricted African Americans from selling or leasing the property. This was effective because it made blacks confined to Bronzeville even though there was not enough space.
Note: For questions 4 – 8, you must click on the thumbnails to read the poems.
4. Describe the kitchenette building that Brooks evokes in her poem “Kitchenette Building”. What is it like to live in this building? What do you think “dream” means to the speaker of the poem?
In Brooks’ poem she describes the kitchenette building as having different smells and has garbage in the hallways as well as sound of singing. As someone gets out of the shower another would hope for warm water. The building is cramped and has smells of many sorts. I think when the speaker of the poem said “dream” they were saying that the person reading the poem should imagine the conditions of the building.
5. According to Hughes’ poem “One-Way Ticket”, why are African Americans leaving the South? What is the experience of migration like as portrayed in the
According to the article, Gwendolyn Brooks is a poet who had grown up during the migration, she had moved from Kansas to Chicago as an infant. Her first collection of poetry was based on her neighborhood in Bronzeville.
2. According to the article, who is Langston Hughes?
Langston Hughes is a famous poet and was a part of the Harlem Renaissance. He spent some time living in Chicago, in 1949, he went to the University of Chicago Laboratory School for three months about poetry.
3. Both Hughes and Brookes wrote about “kitchenettes” in Bronzeville. According to the article, what is a “kitchenette”? Hughes also wrote about “restrictive contracts”. What were they and what was the effect …show more content…
Landlords would divide up larger apartments into smaller ones to fit more people. In that cramped one-roomed area they could be occupied by big families. Bathrooms and kitchens were not included in these one-roomed rooms. There were restrictive covenants that restricted African Americans from selling or leasing the property. This was effective because it made blacks confined to Bronzeville even though there was not enough space.
Note: For questions 4 – 8, you must click on the thumbnails to read the poems.
4. Describe the kitchenette building that Brooks evokes in her poem “Kitchenette Building”. What is it like to live in this building? What do you think “dream” means to the speaker of the poem?
In Brooks’ poem she describes the kitchenette building as having different smells and has garbage in the hallways as well as sound of singing. As someone gets out of the shower another would hope for warm water. The building is cramped and has smells of many sorts. I think when the speaker of the poem said “dream” they were saying that the person reading the poem should imagine the conditions of the building.
5. According to Hughes’ poem “One-Way Ticket”, why are African Americans leaving the South? What is the experience of migration like as portrayed in the