Gwendolyn Brooks

The year is 1924 the roaring twenties were still in swing, prohibition is still intact and a young Gwendolyn Brooks has found a love for poetry.To her poetry is a fun hobby to do in her free time. Little does she know this fun hobby of hers will lead her to become an iconic American figure. Gwendolyn Brooks was and still is a passionate inspirational writer to people across the world. She constantly thinks outside the box to not only inspire other people but inspire herself as well easily making…

“the sonnet-ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a Shakespearean sonnet that uses imagery to paint a picture of war stealing a lover’s happiness by seducing her lover away. This passage portrays that the lover cannot be happy since her significant other has been taken away by war. War has a negative effect on women, and the relationships with their lovers. When death takes away a woman’s lover, they must overcome sorrow and anguish of their loss. In the first quatrain, there is a sense of desperation…

Unit 3- Essay Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks was an extremely famous American Poet. She is particularly famous to be the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. (Gwendolyn Brooks.) Her poems usually covered political topics and related to the injustice faced by the black and underprivileged communities. Her work stand out to me because she expresses such profoundly important and critical issues in the simplest of manners that they can be understood by a young child. Although she uses…

"The Mother” is a powerful poem about abortion and motherhood, written by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize (Gwendolyn Brooks Bio). The poem is marked by a simple language and realism, in which the author describes her unborn children with details and love. She unveils the role of women, almost as if she was giving them help, an advice or even a warning about abortion. Moreover, Brooks appeals to the emotional side and makes the situation dramatic, trying to…

In some of her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the south side of Chicago-- the very place where she called her childhood home. Her first publication, A Street in Bronzeville was deeply committed to capturing the life of African Americans in their homes and communities. The famous poem “Kitchenette Building” in the book A Street in Bronzeville gained heavy recognition because of the use of powerful imagery and description of what it was like to be an African American living in the…

Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrated the principle of troubled teenagers who will ultimately suffer the unfortunate possibility that life purifies human beings while engaging in the lifestyle of the streets. Confinement and or death would be their next choice or news to the troubled teens. The teenagers are obviously not too fond about attending school. This group of teenagers decided that skipping school and hanging around at a pool hall shooting games of pool thought they would find solace and…

example the way an abortion was discussed in “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks sheds light on the story portrayed in “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway to show how difficult the choice is to have an abortion.…

We Real Cool, written by Gwendolyn Brooks shows the path youths faced when they chose to not attend school. Brooks was born before the Harlem Renaissance, which gives the poem its setting. The Harlem Renaissance was the rebirth of African American Arts (History). We Real Cool is a ballad. A ballad is a poem telling a short story based on a theme or narrative (Strand and Boland 73). We Real Cool shows what is was like living as an African American young man during this time. The poem opens with…

Gwendolyn Brooks. A powerful African American women who faced racial discrimination all her life became one of the greatest poets to live with just a pencil and notebook. She stayed true to herself and her identity as she changed the America one poem at a time. David and Keziah Brooks had their first born child, Gwendolyn Brooks, on July 7, 1917, She was born when racism and oppression was at its highest. Shortly after Gwendolyns birth, they relocated to Chicago Illinois, taking part in the…

In the poems Father William by Lewis Carrol, and Jim by Gwendolyn Brooks compares both those who are old, and those who are young. In both poems it about a child and their parent, and how the two different families are bonded as well. In Father William, it is about a boy and his father. The son is asking his father on why and how he does so many things at the old age of his. The father uses excuses from when he was young on how he was able to do them now, such as “I took to the law, and argued…