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, 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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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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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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