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    African Americans. Gwendolyn Brooks was a writer who experienced discrimination from the white population, and even African Americans who were fairer in complexion. She originally wrote about the oppression of African Americans, and their day-to-day struggles. Later on, she expanded her writings to include the struggles of African Americans everywhere. By the end of her life, she inspired thousands of young writers to write about things they’re passionate about. The impact Gwendolyn Brooks has on my life

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    incognito artists to display their sorrow and jubilance. As for the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, her poetry was majority sorrow; the poem “Sonnet-ballad”, written in 1949, the poem depicts a young woman's lover going off to war and his original psyche never returning home after the war. Gwendolyn Brooks later in her life became a strong activist for the African-American people during times like the Civil Rights Movement. Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “Sonnet-ballad” is written about a young woman losing her lover’s

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    Gwendolyn Brooks expresses the injustice of the black society and finding peace and quiet within in her poem titled “The Explorer”, which was published in 1960. In this poem, Brooks talk about how African Americans are oppressed by whites. To be specific, the main character, male or female, is on the run from white society. Brooks used words such as voices, scream, nervous, and griefs to describe what the main character is feeling as he is searching for a peaceful place. The reader can tell that

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    Gwendolyn Brooks was an African American poet . Her first poem was ,“ Eventide”, : “Eventide” When the sun sinks behind the mountains , And the sky is besprinkled with color , And the neighboring brook is peaceful still , With A gentle , silent ripple now and then ; When flowers send forth sweet odors , And the grass is uncommonly green , When the air is tranquilly sweet , And children flock to their mothers’ sides , Then worry flees and comfort presides , For all know it welcoming evening

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    Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks are regarded as highly influential poets in African American literature, which continues to inspire writers to this day. Langston Hughes is a well-known pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance, a movement in which African Americans in Harlem during post World War I and the early 1930’s began a cultural and artistic revolution. During this time, African American musicians, artists, writers, and poets revolutionized their position in and through many artistic fields of

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    Gwendolyn Brooks the Modernist Gwendolyn Brooks’ poetry discusses real issues that have occur in the nineteenth century and twentieth century. Also, she wrote poetry differently than it is consistently written. As a matter of fact, Brooks is a modernist poet which means she was a part of the modernism period. The modernism is a time period where writers like Brooks would use ideas and methods to write literature variously than it was ordinarily written in that time. Therefore, Gwendolyn’s poetry

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    Research Essay Poetry Author Research essay is on Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks and her family later moved to Chicago at an early age, by that time she was 11 years old Gwendolyn Brooks was keeping a poetry notebook, and as a teenger her poems were published frequently in several magazines. Her mother, Keziah (Wims) Brooks and her father David Anderson Brooks. Brooks explores themes in her works because some of the themes

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    Gwendolyn Brooks was an African American poet, who came to national prominence in 1940’s to 1990’s. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985. Throughout her lifetime Gwendolyn Brooks faced many trials and tribulations. Brooks had a real talent in her ability to express reflective human emotions in such logical expressions. Truthfully, She creates a horrific imagery that abortions are terrible; and in the poem “The

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    state of the person involved. In the poem “The Mother” the author, Gwendolyn Brooks, shows what a mother who has

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    Michener once said, "An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it." This applies perfectly to the inequality of african americans in the United States and goes very well with the poem "Truth" by Gwendolyn brooks. In this very powerful poem she uses expressions such as "And if sun comes" to represent light and racial equality. However she also uses expressions like "After so lengthy a session with shade?" and "All through the night-years" to represent

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