Brooks

knuckles hard on the door?” (Brooks). I think that it is possible that the poet is trying to compare the sun to the truth, when the truth finally catches up to the girl. This poem is probably one of the deepest poems I have read in a long time. Brooks uses literary language to show the complexity of the poem “Truth”. The first line says, “And if sun comes, how shall we greet…

was the Brook Farm utopian experiment. This utopian farm was founded by George Ripley and his wife, Sophia Ripley in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, now present-day Boston. Brook Farm was set to be a place of idealism and cooperative communal living. The farm would fail after a series of misfortunes only five short years after its beginning in 1846. The constitution of Brook Farm showed this failure by being unable to follow through on the foundations of the society for the community. Brook Farm…

David Brooks utilizes tone and mood when exploring the issue of man’s domino effect on nature and in regards to discussing the need to eliminate human ignorance towards environmental distress. The poem tells the story of an incident, that in a real-life scenario might have gone unnoticed; the narrator's “incomprehensible bastard” neighbor sprays pesticide which kills his beautiful garden and all of the small creatures that found a home there (Brooks 1). The narrator then goes on to curse…

A Brook Trout has to have many needs in order to survive. One priority that a Brook Trout has to have is fresh and clean water. Although the Brook Trout have to have clean water, if it's too clean, they will die. The reasoning behind this is the trout have to have some bacteria in the water called good microbes, which cleans the water in a way the fish need it to be. Another thing they need in order to survive is some type of protection. If there is a fish in the water that is killing and…

David Brooks an American journalist for the New York Times explains in his article, “The Structures of Growth” the five different processes to improving. He agrees with Canadian writer, Scott H. Young that the progress of improving at something isn’t linear but spherical. Brooks then supports his point by explaining the five processes. As an illustration, he uses a logarithmic as an example. In the beginning, the reader will have it made easy but eventually have to come out of their comfort…

young men and boys today are slowly dropping any interest in the education system or school itself? Could it be simply that women are motivated towards pursuing education and doing well more so than men are throughout high school and college? David Brooks gives references to data that has been collected on the female-male ratios of graduating college. In this, he makes several claims, one being that the most important piece of data is “Until 1985 or so, male college graduates outnumbered female…

Being a mother usually brings happiness, wonderful memories, and love. However, in Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “The Mother” (568) does not bring happiness or good memories, but love in return. Imagery is used throughout the poem and gives it a visual aspect of the true meaning within. Some people disagree with women aborting their unborn children and that they do not love or care for the babies. Abortion is a matter of the mother and an unborn child, and the reasons for which they believe is…

man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.” Many authors also had their moment of fame during this time as well. The Explorer by Gwendolyn Brooks and Fredrick Douglas by Robert Hayden convey certain messages of African American struggles and also a universal human longing. To begin, The Explorer by Gwendolyn Brooks conveys a certain image of black suffrage. For example…

Living in a “Kitchenette Building” What happens to dreams when there are ’s economic issues? In “Kitchenette Building,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, the speaker expresses how dreams are crushed by economic status. A family lives in a Kitchenette Building, with only caring for the “rent”, “feeding a wife”, and “satisfying a man”. The family has so much enough pressure with obtaining their basic needs, that they forget about the “dream” of a better life style. The speaker uses tone, symbolism, and…

of today’s society, though, how relevant can these parables be to such a vastly different world? In accordance to David Brooks’ column from the New York Times, parables are still very relevant, for when it comes to the parable of the Prodigal Sons, Brooks defends the father within the story and compares the two sons to modern American social policy-making of today. The ideas Brooks provides, however, are flawed with hasty generalizations and black-and-white reasoning. To begin with, while…