Gwendolyn Brooks the Mother Essay

first taste of the readings. I have seen that in “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks tells the tale of being not loose and free and having as little conformity as possible. Whereas, on the other hand, Junot Diaz’s idea of conformity in the excerpt we were assigned to read shows that the family’s ideas of conformity are very expected and it shows in their morals and they try to enforce it. Even though that’s not the case for Lola. Brooks makes it seem as if there’s not a care in the world for her characters

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...” ― Richard Wright, Black Boy this is a quote from the famous Richard Wright an African American author. This quote means that no matter what was placed in his way or what he lacked that others had he hung on to what he had and did what he could. And the more he read about the world, the more he longed to see it and make a permanent break from the Jim Crow South. "I want my life to count for something," he told

Gwendolyn Brooks' "a song in the front yard" (rpt. in Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 11th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2012] 682) tells a story about a young girl who lived a sheltered life and is curious about how others live their lives. This poem shows the difference between the the refined and wealthy life experience and the poor, troubled life. The narrator's transition to another way of life ultimately shows the flexibility of society. The poem's

outcome if one is successful or not. In the poem, “a song in the front yard”, Gwendolyn Brooks, the author of the poem, discusses a girl who debates if she should or should not enter into the “back yard.” The girl does decide to enter in the backyard where she benefits from taking the risk. Brooks communicates the concept that people need to take risks to develop new experiences in one’s life. Using personification Brooks describes how the “backyards” compare to a person who does take risks and a person

Pregnancy is a daunting feat not for the faint of heart. When on this journey of creating life, many mothers have feelings of doubt and regret. The poems The Victory, Metaphors, and The Mother all take varied approaches to the topic of motherhood in regards to their use of imagery, diction, and syntax. The imagery in The Victory is extremely negative and graphic. Anne Stevenson describes her child as a “tiny antagonist.” She is saying that her child is fighting her. Having control during the birthing

Milad Moghtader Professor Lawler English M01B 16 September 2014 A Mother's Unfortunate Loss The relationship between a mother and child is unbreakable. It is a strong bond that no one else can understand, thus making abortion such a difficult topic to talk about. That is why the language used to talk about it is so important. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, The Mother, Brooks uses great word choice, imagery, figure of speech and symbolism to allow the readers to get a sense of what the woman in the poem

“Wickedness”: Examining the Theme of Darkness in Kwame Dawes “The Tornado Child”, Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool,” and Ai “The Kid” American author and poet, Kwame Dawes, in his poem "Tornado Child" (which was written during the Harlem Renaissance for Rosalie Richardson) writes about the life of an African-American woman (Richardson) who often had to deal with racism and oppression. Gwendolyn Brooks, American writer and poet, wrote the poem “We Real Cool” (during the 1960’s assassination of the

Furthermore, It is evident that the mother in Brooks’ poem is experiencing regret and guilt as a result of her decision to abort her pregnancies. These feelings are very real and directly associated with the feelings other women who have abortions experience. These emotional feelings are all generally comprised into one diagnosis entitled Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (PASS). This syndrome is not a disease or something that is significant to one’s health. Psychology today provides an important disclosure

“Quinceanera” by Judith Ortiz Cofer and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks are two poems that describe different coming-of-age circumstances. Although some aspects of the poems’ language usage are similar, the two poems are rather different in the aspects of narration and plot. Frankly, the two poems are very different in their syntax and language usage. “Quinceanera” is very descriptive: “I am to wash my own clothes and sheets from this day on, as if the fluids of my body were poison, as if

“the sonnet-ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a Shakespearean sonnet that uses imagery to paint a picture of death/war stealing a lover’s happiness by portraying that the man is seduced away. This passage portrays that the lover cannot be happy for her significant other has been taken away by death/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