Jan 7, 2009
Annie Allen is a poetic sequence: Its structure is looser than that of a poem, yet more coherent than that of a collection of poems. The sources of unity in a poetic sequence may vary. In the case of Annie Allen, the principal unifying element is the pattern of childhood, girlhood, young womanhood, and mature womanhood followed in the development of the sequence’s protagonist.
The first section of the sequence, “Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood,” consists of eleven poems. In these, Gwendolyn Brooks traces the life of Annie...
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