Gwendolyn Brooks

the parents of girls or those who have young siblings that are girls. The Poem “Gwendolyn Brooks Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress- Toward is a Lyrical Poem. It has purpose, it is short, and has a single speaker who expresses personal thoughts and feelings which is Gwendolyn. It focuses in on the idea that we should “Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.” (“Brooks”…

This poem that I am going to write about is called “We real cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks. Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7,1917 in Topeka, Kansas and died on December 3, 2000 in Chicago Illinois. This poem was written in 1959 and published in 1960. This poem also has a subtitle called “The pool players. Seven at the golden shovel”. This might suggest that the main idea of this poem can be about a group of people at a pool hall. This poem was written at a time in society when segregation was at…

looking at the feelings and emotions of human longing. All poems can be simply dissected by looking at these two perspectives. “The Explorer” written by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden are two powerful examples of analyzing poetry using social perspectives and archetypal perspective. “The Explorer” was written by Gwendolyn Brooks in the time period of the civil rights movement, which definitely sets the social perspective for this poem. During this time period,…

often image a life with a spouse, home, and white picket fence. However, in reality, there is a huge difference between this common misconception that everyone can achieve this picture-perfect life and what life often entails for many. In fact, Gwendolyn Brooks’ “Kitchenette Building,” Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again,” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” all explore this difference between the “American dream” and real life in America. Specifically, although approaching the…

Art” by Elizabeth Bishop and “In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father” by Gwendolyn Brooks. The correlation between these poems is the act of losing someone or something, but how they react to this loss varies. Within the short poem, “One Art,” the speaker seems to be dulled to the point where she/he has no care when it comes to losing anything or anyone and even recommends practicing this act everyday. “In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father” is completely different in the way that…

faith. The biggest contributor to develop one’s identity is race. The literary pieces, Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, “Still I Rise,” by Maya Angelou, and “Primer for Blacks,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, display a variety of similarities of the importance of racial identity. Hansberry, Angelou, and Brooks believe that a person’s pride in his or her ethnicity…

American poet and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Gwendolyn Brooks, National Book Award Winner, Ai Ogawa, and Emmy Award Winning Poet, Kwame Dawes are all essential components of the time of which they wrote. Writer Gwendolyn Brooks is a unique poet who is publishing poems that withstands the Civil Rights Movement. The poem “We Real Cool”, written by Gwendolyn, talks about seven young pool players whom left school to live the fast life and die young trying. Ai Ogawa develops poems with substantial…

the use of symbolism, diction, and imagery, Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrates that even during times of struggle and worthlessness, we can reflect upon what we have, which consist of our memories and experiences we’ve shared with loved ones, which ultimately makes us rich. Gwendolyn Brooks, the poet of the poem, “The Bean Eaters,” illustrates this powerful theme by painting vivid imagery for her reader. “They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair.” (1) Brooks provides this meaningful quote to…

James McBride, Wes Moore, Richard Wright, Brent Staples, and Gwendolyn Brooks have learned the importance of literacy first hand. In fact, literacy and those who have influenced the literacy of each man have allowed each to author his own destiny by opening his eyes to a larger world, creating a sense of faith, and often saving his life. In many cases, literacy can help open one’s eyes to a larger world or array of experiences, which would not have been otherwise available; through reading, one…

to. In the poem “A Song In The Front Yard” by Gwendolyn Brooks, imagery, rhyme, and symbolism are used to describe the barriers between the “front yard” children and the “backyard” children. The overall meaning of this poem is to showcase the stark difference between the “sheltered child”, a shy girl who yearns for more freedom and the “unsheltered ‘charity children’” who possess said freedoms only through a lack of structure in their own lives. Brooks describes the socioeconomic barriers…