Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “A Song in the Front Yard” is about a girl who, despite the warnings of her strict mother, wants to experience the other side of life—a side of life that her mother fears...

Gwendolyn Brooks writes poetry from her heart and as she sees it. She admits that her upbringing and experiences dictate the type of poet that she is and she embraces and challenges conditions in...

One literary device used in Brooks' poem is punning. Punning is when a word can have more than one meaning. In this poem, the frequently used word "we" can mean either a group of people (you (all)...

The tone of Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “the mother” is extremely complex. The tone of the opening line – “Abortions will not let you forget” – can be read as regretful and as offering a kind of warning...

In "The Ballad of Rudolph Reed," the style of the poem, the repetition and parallelism, and its explicit identification as a ballad recall much older English poems and aristocratic heroes such as...

I think the question is written in multiple choice format, and the four choices are given. To answer your question based on the four choices present, people fight wars because of the second option....

The brief encounter with the mouse in the poem "Maud Martha Spares the Mouse" results in anything but a brief change in Maud Martha. Maud Martha has been tormented by her inability to capture the...

I do believe that Maud Martha is justified in sparing the mouse as told in the poem "Maud Martha Spares the Mouse" by Gwendolyn Brooks. I find that Maud Martha is justified given that she allows...

Both poets wrote of the lives of African Americans and were able to capture the feelings and surroundings of African American narrators. One might argue, however, that Brooks's poetry was at times...

In 1950,Gwendolyn Brooks, who lived most of her life in Chicago, Illinois, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in part because of her social concerns. Brooks herself said that she attempted...

In order to understand Gwendolyn Brooks' part in her poem entitled, "The Mother," one must understand what "dramatic persona" actually is. Dr. L. Kip Wheeler provides a definition of the "persona"...

For an example of two especially rich and complex poems by Brooks, I recommend "the mother" and "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock." These works deal with complicated issues...

Not really. Not I, at least. If anything it mostly depicted the social differences of people, in terms of social class rather than focusing on a racial conflict. If you put the story in context...

It is a rather bleak picture of a poor, lonely couple that Gwendolyn Brooks portrays in her poem, "The Bean Eaters." Unable to afford meat, the old "yellow pair," African-Americans who have not...

While the two poems are similar in their themes of the precariousness of love, they certainly differ in their presentation of theme. Indeed, there is a marked difference in the tone of each poem....

Gwendolyn Brooks' voice, as a poet, is multifunctional and multidimensional. Depending upon the focus of the poem, Brooks' voice can be soothing or demanding, angry or calm, happy or sad. Her...

I had a magnificent opportunity to hear Gwendolyn Brooks speak and recite her poetry in Charlotte, NC before she passed away. Brooks has an amazing body of work that tends to create, as your...

What do you think I do with the money that enotes pays me for answering this question? I use it to buy food, airtime, Internet, utilities, etc. With that money the providers of those items in...

Let us remember that the Black Arts Movement actually represented a real growth in African American literature, and through it African Americans were encouraged to start their own unique brand of...

In this poem, the speaker is a woman who has had multiple abortions in her life. She says that one does not forget "the children you got that you did not get," the children one conceived but did...

Writers construct literary personalities, which can be more or less obvious. When Edgar Allan Poe adopts the persona of a madman to write a short story, no reader thinks he expressing his own...