Gwendolyn Brooks

quickly one generation can forget the accomplishments and concerns of another. “Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen is a poem that expresses his doubts and confusions about the world and the relationship between people and God. “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a poem written in an ironic manner to portray the carefree and eventual tragic lives of seven dropouts who think that they are “cool.” “Good Country People” by Flannery O’ Connor is a short story in which through the use of irony in…

by writers of African descent and directly pertains to the experience and the view points of African-Americans. The color purple’s consideration of women, sexuality and power dynamics between white and blacks is also reflected in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks. Alice walker was an active participant in the American civil…

Robert Hayden deals with a father-son relationship. I'm sure dads everywhere have varying relationships with their kids, even from day-to-day. They might even feel underappreciated at times. "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks is a look at the relationship between a mother and her aborted child. Brooks does a really good job at touching the reader's heart. We're aware of the great deal of emotion experienced by the mother, and it's very likely that mothers today feel similarly. Finally, in Allen…

trip, I do not look forward to seeing my bed, the kitchen, or my sauna, I look forward to seeing my family. Personally, I do not care what my house looks like. Without them inside, it would just be a house, not my home. In the story “Home” by Gwendolyn Brooks, their house is not perfect, but they believe it is because that is where the characters are together as a family: “‘It 's just going to kill Papa’ burst out Maud Martha, ‘He loves this house! He lives for this house!’ ‘He lives for us’…

One possible direction to press Cavell in a theological register is to read the centering of the ordinary as an explicit critique of the messianic, that is, of discontinuous eschatological formations of redemption. Cavell’s fear that we take too much for granted about our everyday lives—in what our shared language and therefore our shared world implies—certainly lends this pressure. Any sense of uncritical or one-sided otherworldliness threatens to perpetuate the failure of not taking language…

I am a white femme presenting human. I don’t feel like it is my place to define what being black means- or on the other hand, what it doesn’t mean. By no means do I want to broaden the culture of stereotyping folks based off of their own personal identity. In our class this semester we have talked at length about black artists who have been judged based off of how black they are or how black they aren’t. It isn’t easy to define “what black is, and what black ain’t”. Everyone has a different…

exercises we did in class where each group had to interpret the meaning behind each poem definitely helped me to gain a better understanding. I actually have a couple favorites and some that really stuck out to me. For instance, “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks is about abortions and what the aborting mother will never experience both during and after birth with the fetuses she’s aborted. It’s sad, and quite heartbreaking, but very real. Another good and pretty fun one is “Homage to My Hips”…

INTRO “I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering ‘bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love” (Walker). While the existence of personhood is often questioned as an individual learns about life, The Color Purple provides critical insight to the growth of African Americans in The South. Alice…

Final: The Human Stain The Human Stain is a complex, emotionally exhausting, and unnerving book. The characters are diverse and engage the reader through a variety of socially sensitive issues. The chapters throughout the story capture themes of racial divide, identity struggles, tragic unconditional love and social economic status. The course theme of “Otherness” are riddled in Philip Roth’s novel The Human Stain. Classifying “Otherness” as an Individual who is perceived by the group as…

Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni, an american poet, editor, writer, and activist. Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 07, 1943 to Yolande Cornelia, Sr. and Jones “Gus” Giovanni. Giovanni shared an unique relationship with her forthright, maternal grandmother, who nurtured her of their African-American heritage. This abundant disclosure of her personal heritage resulted in further appreciation, and inspiration to take on her career as a poet. When Giovanni was still a young girl…