Gwendolyn Brooks

“The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brook, the theme is guilt, by the speaker is feeling guilty because of the abortions she has had in her lifetime. The speaker refers to the abortions as crimes by saying “Whine that the crime was other than mine?” (I. 23). Gwendolyn Brooks also uses symbolism, tone, and personification throughout this poem. The symbolism in this poem is simply about abortion and how if the mother has an abortion she has to live with the fact that she has had one like Gwendolyn has. When…

Every decision is followed by consequences. These consequences can be good or bad and lead to a happy or sad feeling. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “The Mother”, there is both a feeling of happiness and guilt to a decision that is made. The author tells about how you cannot forget the consequences that are a result to a decision that you make. Gwendolyn Brooks uses literary devices such as imagery, personification, rhyme, and repetition to show how one person feels about a decision that they made.…

and no 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…

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…

pronged: to “give name to the nameless” and “answer the received cultural imagination of the subject with something utterly different.” Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks do it exceptionally well. Their poetry tackles subject matter vital to the task of complicating cultural imagined archetypes for women. Almost immediately, first line Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “The Mother” fulfills its responsibility of meeting culturally imagined standards with something utterly different through the poem’s…

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…

Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the few poets able to move between the academic poets of the 1940’s and militant writers in the 1960’s, creating a fresh style of poetry that reflected the philosophic struggle each African American woman dealt with during this time. Her words spoke of the pain which comes with trying to better one’s life, especially in the face of extreme poverty and racial inequality. Upon initial reading one may see a theme of the stereotypical African American female, often…

In “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks, there is an underlying story of sorrow and urgency. It talks of unborn children dying from unnatural causes. A lot of people believe she is writing as if she was the mother of an aborted baby (or multiple), but if one digs deeper into the poem, they will find that the writer may be talking as if she is the abortionist. There are several sources that suggests that she was the doctor that performed abortions. Not only is she apologizing for taking the life of…

issue. In “The Mother,” Brooks imagines the thoughts, feelings, and dreams that the aborted child was not able to feel. Terminating a fetus is a huge decision, and the author lets us in on the emotional difficulties that follow having an abortion. Brooks’ poem offers a non-judgmental portrait of a woman who has had an abortion. Every abortion involves a woman with thoughts, emotions and love and “The Mother” gives this woman a chance to speak up. The speaker in Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “the…

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…