Selected Poems Gwendolyn Brooks Pdf

[Melissa Alvarado]

Thisis a great poem to teach. It has vivid, concrete images and a superbly controlled voice, and it manages to question an entire moral-societal order in language that is completely understandable to your average eighth-grader.

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Prof. Pennington-Jones June 14, 2007 Intro to Literature

This is in reference to "We Real Cool"

I think Brooks took a chance with doing a more bebop style to this poem and because of this particular approach it may have help to catch the audience of those persons living the fast life and maybe making them think twice about living the life with the last line.

The poem "my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell" it very inspiring. I get the feeling that she is trying to say that her personal business is what comes last and she will worry about things that aren't important will be taken care of after she handle what means the most to her. She trying to let her readers know that you to have your priorities in order from what means the most to you and the things that don't matter the most be left behind until you return from hell as she called it.

Reading Lovers of the Poor was an inspirational poem to read. It kept me in touch with my surroundings and the struggle for black woman. This poem gave me insight on her mind state changed as a black woman. She had many obstacles to overcome through this error in her life as blacks had to overcome the racial profile.

Though not a native Chicagoan, I am proud to say that Brooks is affiliated with my city. She spend her last days on the south side of Chicago and attended City Colleges of Chicago at what is now known as Kennedy-King. I once read that she died while composing some literary work with a pencil in her hand; I'm sure that's how she would have preferred to go.

I think that this woman was very strong and courages to have been able to write poetry the way she she did. I've read "We Real Cool" and i loved it. The poem has great significance to everyday life of hustlers, pimps, friends, women and men.

There are several poems by Mrs. Books that I've identified with; she wrote in a very realsitic tone. She didn't make "fluff" poetry she made real life poetry. There are several thought provoking pieces that show the versatility that Gwendolyn brought to her writting.

In my Literature class we are studying Gwendolyn Brooks and her works of art. My favorite poems thus far in our studies of her are "We Real Cool" as well as "The Mother". I personally do not feel that "We Real Cool" is over rated at all. I feel that the poem was extremely creative. "The Mother" speaks to me the most. Although I am not a mother as of now, I am a god-mother. I do feel that this poem should be posted in every OBGYN office. Perhaps it would decrease the number of abortions in our world.

First and Foremost I feel that "

Sadie and Maud' by Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the poems that I think women all around the world should have the pleasure of reading. It signifies the independent lives that women have and the joy that life might bring. I also feel that the world still isnt ready for "Mother" because it really holds a strong impact. Also " We Real Cool" is one of my fav's Cause it has the slow jazz tempo..And all around your article was wonderful..

To elaborate, "The Vacant Lot" is meaningful to me because i am from the Bronzeville area and there are numerous vacant lots and abandoned buildings where kids play in and dope fiends get high in, etc.

Gwendolyn Brook is an interesting writer. I have read some of her bio and have learned of some of her accomplishments. What I have learned from reading different poems and discussing it out loud with classmates is that people can read the same thing but have a totally different outlook. One of my best poems by Ms. Brooks is "The Vacant Lot".

I think that Gwendolyn Brooks was a very interesting writer. In her writings she speaks upon different things such as, social issues, the roles of women, etc. Her poetry relates to many individual's; especially blacks. In her poem entitled, "The Mother," she speaks of an issue that affects many woman today (abortion). This is a poem every woman should read. She was the type of poet that draws her readers into her writing, and this is important because not too many writer/poets can do that.

I particulary have taken interest in Gwendolyn Brooks poem "A penitent considers." Personally, I feel if Mary came back she would whoop the hell out of us cause we just know too Much.... Naw, SEriously we should continue to strive for the peace that Jesus taught Because Many of our sins are found in the rebellious folly of mans conceit and self pride she would probably urge us to humble our behavour to make our fathers heart glad...

I am a fifty two year old junior working on a research paper about my favorite poet, Gwen Brooks. In 1979 I took a GED course. I saw the poem We Real Cool written on a blackboard. I jotted it down and put the paper away. In 2006 I found the paper in my tax folder. I googled the poem. My major is English Literature. I checked my text book and the poem was in it as well as several of other books that I own. This research paper screams to me to write it, therefore, Gwen Brooks' works are my research choice. College reading is often tedious for me, but now I find it enlightening indeed. I checked out ten books from our library about Brooks as well as those written by my favotite poet and author. Respectfully,

Chinnie D. Burford

iam a research scholar working on the poems of gwendolyn brooks.I like the poem 'mother'.I found a similar poem "the lost baby "by lucille clifton.Both the poems have the similar theme ;a black woman's struggle in rearing up the children. Her difficulties make her reconsider her choice of becoming a mother and to prevent her children facing the dangers in the white world , she prepares to forego her child. Both are moving poems

I am particularly fond of "We Real Cool" because even though she wrote it in 1960, they young men today with the "gangsta" mentality fit the images in the poem. They need to read the last line and realize that being cool and being contemptuous of the "establishment" will get them nowhere except to an early grave. Millions of young people today take that attitude but they need to get wise, stay in school, and prepare for the future. Pretty soon, they will be the adults in the world and another generation will replace them. They can no longer rebel against authority because they will be it. Peace!

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How does one begin to convey the influenceGwendolyn Brooks has had on generations-not only writers, butpeople from all walks of life? How can one describe the fiercelypersonal connection her poems make, how chronicle her enormousimpact on recent literary, social, and political history?

There is a tradition in the black church: wecall it Testifying. It is the brave and humbling act of standingup among one's family, friends, and neighbors to bare one's soul,and to bear witness by acknowledging those who have sustainedand nurtured the testifier along the way.

Standing in front of this literary congregationas a grown woman, a woman who has entered her 40s, I feel verystrange thinking that when Gwendolyn Brooks was awarded the 1950Pulitzer Prize for "Annie Allen," her second collectionof poems, I was not even, as people used to say then, "atwinkle in my daddy's eye."

I was born two years after Gwendolyn Brooks,as the first Black writer ever, had received this highest honorin American letters. And it wasn't until 17 years later, whenas a gawky adolescent I spent the whole of a muggy midwesternsummer combing the local library shelves for something that mightspeak to me-that the poems of Gwendolyn Brooks leapt off the pagesof the book in my hands and struck me like a thunderbolt. Thesewere words that spoke straight from the turbulent center of life-wordsthat nourished like meat, not frosting. Yes, I was struck by thesepoems, poems with muscle and sinew, poems that weren't afraidto take the language and revamp it, twist it and energize it sothat it shimmied and dashed and lingered.

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