Selected Poems (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Racism, Social issues, World War II, American Dream, Women’s issues, War, Military life or service, Heroes or heroism
Form and Content
The first section of Gwendolyn Brooks’s Selected Poems is devoted to an investigation of the world that the poet has chosen to represent: “A Street in Bronzeville.” The street is dominated by women, as the presence of such figures as the mother, a hunchback girl, and Sadie and Maud indicates. The first poem in the sequence, “Kitchenette Building,” is a central one because it asks what the fate of a dream would be in this world. Would it penetrate the “onion fumes” of garbage and “fried potatoes”? The speaker wonders if it might be...
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