Literary Techniques in "We Real Cool" Gwendolyn Brooks uses literary techniques such as dialect, ironic point of view, and syntax to accentuate the theme and persona in "We Real Cool." ... The pool players" view of themselves and their actions differs from that of Gwendolyn Brooks. ... If Gwendolyn Brooks felt the same way as they do, their lives would appear more glorious to the reader. ... Because of Gwendolyn's use of these literary techniques, readers understand the theme of her poem: Even though following the carefree crowd appears seems to be the right path, it usually ends i...

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There is a Garden in Her Face by Thomas Campion and A Song in the Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks are similar and different in many ways. ... First of all, in Gwendolyn Brooks" poem, A Song in the Front Yard, the speaker is the girl in the poem. ... Brooks" rhyming is not as obvious, but has end-rhyming s well. ... Brooks" herself lived a sheltered life in Chicago and always wanted to escape. ... A Song in the Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks and There is a Garden in her Face by Thomas Campion are very contrasting poems in many ways. ...

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Gwendolyn Brooks is a prominent African American poet of the twentieth century, and is known for her indelible impact in African American literature. Brooks was born in 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. ... These poems were written in the first phase of Brook's writing. ... For this collection Brooks became the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. ... Until 196, as Brooks puts it, "My own Blackness did not confront me with a shrill spelling of self." ...

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Gwendolyn Brooks, author of "We Real Cool", was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1917. ... Attending a diverse assortment of schools influenced some of Brooks writings. ... By 1934 Brooks began working for the Chicago Defender writing weekly poetry. ... With only a limited number of words in the poem Brooks makes brilliant use of language. ... Brooks conveys her messages through the speaker who is one of the pool players. ...

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"The Mother" "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks is a poem that deals with abortion. The mother, who is the speaker, is not, in fact, Gwendolyn Brooks. She is a woman who, as the text indicates, has had several abortions. The speaker is telling everyone this in order to elicit a response from th...

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In the two poems "Negro Hero" and "The Sundays of Satin-Leg Smith" written by Gwendolyn Brooks, we enter into the minds of two black men. ... Through these descriptions, Brooks unveils what type of people the characters really are. ... In each situation, Brooks identifies that each man has a struggle within him self. ... Fog out his identity" (Brooks 115-116). ... (Brooks 41. ...

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The three poems I selected were "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen, "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks and "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden. ... The next poem that I choose was "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks. ...

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"The mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks, is about abortion and emotions that the mother feels by making such a decision. ... Gwendolyn Brooks obviously knew of how abortions affected one's mind even way back in the 1940's. ...

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In the poem "Sadie and Maud", Gwendolyn Brooks creates a situation where two characters, whom are sisters, go two separate ways and make completely different lifestyle choices, resulting in an ironic ending. ... Brooks uses, "a fine-tooth comb" as a way to symbolize how Sadie didn't miss one single detail in her life (4). ... Sadie is a positive, independent person and Brooks shows this in the next few lines. ... Brooks mentions the birth of Sadies two children and how they were born "Under her maiden name" (10). ... On the fourth stanza, Brooks mentions S...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century 11. The transcendentalists A. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) - American essayist and poet, a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism. Influenced by such schools of thought as English romanticism, ...

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The Road Not Taken by: Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better...

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Writers like Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass, W.E.B Dubois, Gwendolyn Brook, Zoral Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Baldwin and many more writers have paved the way for the work's of African American literature. ...

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The neighborhood was the center of black culture in the early 20th century, the birthplace of jazz-a community where numerous infamous leaders, artists, activists and athletes were raised and or lived including: musician Louis Armstrong, boxer Joe Louis, poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and first African American female pilot, Bessie Coleman to name a few. ...

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