The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks There are a good number of issues in the world that stand unsolved. The debates on some of them are on for ever and ever but a feasible solution has never risen in the horizon. The most prominent among these perennial issues is abortion. It is a topic that has been subjected to serious debate across all the parts of the world. However, so far we have arrived at a convincing answer to believe abortion to be secure and justified or as a heinous crime of the humanity
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the decision is to the mother. With women’s rights and the evolution of people’s thinking abortions are becoming more tolerable; still controversial but more tolerable than before. Some people see that ultimately it is the mothers’ decision for it is her sacrifice to have a child and not theirs. Abortion should not be as controversial as it because not every person that becomes pregnant can properly care for the child due to lack of funds. It is not cold-blooded murder; a mother does not take the decision
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have set the bar pretty high for upcoming poets. Gwendolyn Brooks poems present different voices and characters in each poem she writes. Each is encountered with different problems she found important or controversial that she usually has witnessed take place in her own life. Brooks demonstrates different voices depending on which topic shes discussing in the piece and what character she feels would portray the topic the best. Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansa, but then moved to Chicago
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. She was the first child of her parents, David and Keziah Brooks. When Brooks was six weeks old, her family moved to Chicago, Illinois, which Brooks considers her home town. At the age of seven, Brooks' gift in writing was discovered and her mother encouraged it by introducing her to different types of literature. Her parents were otherwise strict and Brooks was not allowed to play with the other children in her neighborhood. She
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2074). In the two pieces “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke the poets use a combination of rime, rhythm and meter to get the poem’s meaning across. The poem “We Real Cool” uses rhythm, the pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem, to get across the poet Gwendolyn Brooks’ theme. “We Real Cool” is about a group of boys that should be in school but decide to skip to go do something that is considered “cool”. Brooks uses an imitative tone while simultaneously
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Nick Torkildsen Essay #3 Professor Warner Woman in a Red Hat The poem by Gwendolyn Brooks “A woman in a Red Hat” tells the story of a black maid through the eyes of a middle class white person; Gwendolyn Brooks the author of this poem is black herself which lies great irony inside of the story. The poem was written in the 1960’s which was a time of great racism in America, it was the heat of the civil rights movement, and the way blacks in America were portrayed is often of lesser value. Having
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Roles in African American Literature Authors Gwendolyn Brooks and David Henderson are known as influential African American poets. Each helped the black community with more than just their literary works. Brooks and Henderson were very active in their communities and many times their poems depicted events from their personal lives. Each talented writer uses male and female characters to portray their themes of life, racism, and community. However, Brooks focuses on the need for females to break down
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Laza Smith Prof Johnson Eng 200 April 22 2012 Formal Essay #2. The poems “metaphors” by Sylvia Plath and “the mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks both have the same theme of pregnancy. Alongside “hills like white elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, they talk about the trials and tribulation that comes with having being pregnant. Sylvia Plath begins the poem with a riddle which gives us a clue to the structure of the poem and its theme, she says, “I’m a riddle in nine syllables” (Plath line 1).
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There are many images and word choices in “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks that convey the tone of the poet toward the theme of her subject matter-abortion. The poet uses varying points of view to convey the complexity of the issue being discussed, and the tone therefore becomes a complex thing in itself. Within the poem there is a tone of didacticism, censure, accusation, and understanding that is portrayed through the voice of the poet. The use of the pronoun “you” at the beginning of the poem
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the other side. This is the case in Gwendolyn Brooks’ “a song in the front yard,” which tells the story of a young girl who yearns to live a life different from her own. This is something that just about anyone can relate to, whether you’re rich or poor. This poem starts off with the narrator saying “I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life.” (Brooks). This metaphor sets the scene for the rest of the poem, which talks of her desire to “peek at the back” (Brooks). The front yard symbolizing the safe
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