Gwendolyn Brooks Duty To Words

Introduction Gwendolyn Brooks was born in 1917 in Topeka, Kansas, and moved to Chicago at a young age. She attended a junior college in Chicago, then started working for the NAACP, all before publishing “A Street in Booneville”, her first book of poems, in 1945. The Mother (her most famous poem) was also published in 1945. In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to ever win the Pulitzer Prize and in 1968, Brooks was appointed the Poet Laureate of Illinois. The themes of

theme that the poet can relate to. For example, Gwendolyn Brooks filled her poems with ambiguity, making her work controversial yet popular during the era. Brooks used the stigma of racism and racial issues during her lifetime to drive the meaning of her poems. In doing so, she popularized her own work, making a name for herself, creating new opportunities that could have been hard to acquire as a black woman. Although many have argued that Gwendolyn Brooks wrote in a style that was majorly controversial

What is more important, a person 's race or their character? Gwendolyn Brooks wrote poems about African Americans and their everyday struggles. Brooks’s poems “We Real Cool”, “The Mother”, and “Gay Chaps at the Bar” help to demonstrate the racial discrimination that African Americans face in their everyday lives. Gwendolyn Brooks has said that her poetry was written for blacks and about blacks, yet any person or race can relate to the universal themes portrayed in her pieces. Poets use universal

Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas on June 7, 1917, to her parents David and Keziah Brooks, after her birth, the Brooks’ decided to move the family to the South Side of Chicago. Where Brooks grew up and lived the rest of her life there, there Brooks would experience racial prejudice in school. The young poet found comfort in reading and writing, which her parents actively encouraged Brooks’ mother declared to her, that she is going to be a poet. Brooks published her first poem Eventide

wrote, People cannot learn what they do not love.(62) If given a professor that is very abrupt and has a bad attitude, then that will significantly impact your thoughts about the profession that the professor is teaching. An excellent poem by Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool, talks about the trouble these pool players get into since they dropped out of school. They drink, fight, swear, and before they know it they die soon.(133) Spayde also says that if we change the notion that learning is time consuming