Readers can draw many connections from two great poems. Gwendolyn Brooks is a writer that focusses on the uprooting and the inability to make a living in black communities. In the poem “The Explorer” by Gwendolyn Brooks, talks about the needs of every human being. The needs and wants that everyone desires. Robert Hayden faced a difficult childhood that he used to fuel his fire. In “Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden, he describes a burning passion we all have inside of us. Both of theses poems have many similarities and differences. Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden have similarities and differences just like “The Explorer” and Fredrick Douglass”.
The two writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden have many similarities and differences …show more content…
This shows how each poem reflects the struggles of African Americans. In “The Explorer”, Gwendolyn Brooks reflects the struggles of African Americans by saying in line 10. “Wee griefs. Grand griefs. And choices. He feared most of all the choices, that cried to be taken.” They were scared to have the freedom to make the wrong choices. In “Frederick Douglass”, Robert Hayden reflects the struggles in line 7, “this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world where none is lonely, none hunted, alien, this man shall be remembered.” When the struggles of all off these things are over, everyone will have …show more content…
This demonstrates how each poem expresses universal human longings. “Was the frayed inner want, the winding, the frayed hope whose tatters he kept hunting through the din.” Gwendolyn Brooks states in line 3. Their hope was fading as they longed for a better tomorrow. In “Frederick Douglas, Robert Hayes says in line 14, “But with the lives grown out of his life, the lives fleshing his dream of the beautiful needful thing.” Throughout his whole life, the man longs for what he truly
The two writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden have many similarities and differences …show more content…
This shows how each poem reflects the struggles of African Americans. In “The Explorer”, Gwendolyn Brooks reflects the struggles of African Americans by saying in line 10. “Wee griefs. Grand griefs. And choices. He feared most of all the choices, that cried to be taken.” They were scared to have the freedom to make the wrong choices. In “Frederick Douglass”, Robert Hayden reflects the struggles in line 7, “this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world where none is lonely, none hunted, alien, this man shall be remembered.” When the struggles of all off these things are over, everyone will have …show more content…
This demonstrates how each poem expresses universal human longings. “Was the frayed inner want, the winding, the frayed hope whose tatters he kept hunting through the din.” Gwendolyn Brooks states in line 3. Their hope was fading as they longed for a better tomorrow. In “Frederick Douglas, Robert Hayes says in line 14, “But with the lives grown out of his life, the lives fleshing his dream of the beautiful needful thing.” Throughout his whole life, the man longs for what he truly