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But what are Brooks’ very best poems? Below, we select and introduce ten of her finest. 1. ‘ Speech to the Young ’. ‘Speech to the Young’, full title ‘Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward’, is a poem by the American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, included in her 1970 collection Family Pictures as well as several subsequent collections.
Courtesy of Getty Images. Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most influential and widely read 20th-century American poets. The author of more than 20 books, she was highly regarded even during her lifetime and had the distinction of being the first Black poet to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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- Reflecting African-American Life
- The Children of The Poor
- The Mother
- We Real Cool
- To Be in Love
- Sadie and Maud
- A Sunset of The City
- Boy Breaking Glass
- The Bean Eaters
- Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
Much of her poetry reflected on urban African-American life, though its themes were universal to the human experience. Her output was impressive, encompassing more than twenty books, including children’s books. Brooks broke into book publishing in 1945 with A Street In Bronzeville, referring to an area in the Chicago’s South Side. It was an auspici...
1 People who have no children can be hard: Attain a mail of ice and insolence: Need not pause in the fire, and in no sense Hesitate in the hurricane to guard. And when wide world is bitten and bewarred They perish purely, waving their spirits hence Without a trace of grace or of offense To laugh or fail, diffident, wonder-starred … Full text of “Th...
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air. You will never neglect or beat Them, or silence or buy with a sweet. You will never wind up the sucking-thumb Or scuttle off ghosts that come … 1. Full tex...
The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late … 1. Full text of “We Real Cool” 2. Analysis of We Real Cool (from The Bean Eaters, 1960) . . . . . . . . . . .
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. You look at things Through his eyes. A cardinal is red. A sky is blue. Suddenly you know he knows too … 1. Full text of “To Be in Love” 2. Analysis of To Be in Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Maud went to college. Sadie stayed home. Sadie scraped life With a fine toothed comb. She didn’t leave a tangle in Her comb found every strand. Sadie was one of the livingest chicks In all the land … 1. Full text of “Sadie and Maud” 2. Analysis of “Sadie and Maud” (from Selected Poems, Harper & Row, 1963) . . . . . . . . . . .
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls, Are gone from the house. My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite And night is night. It is a real chill out, The genuine thing … 1. Full text of “A Sunset of the City” 2. Analysis of “A Sunset of the City” (from Select...
Whose broken window is a cry of art (success, that winks aware as elegance, as a treasonable faith) is raw: is sonic: is old-eyed première. Our beautiful flaw and terrible ornament. Our barbarous and metal little man … 1. Full text of “A Boy Breaking Glass” 2. Analysis of “A Boy Breaking Glass” (from Blacks, Third World Press, 1987) . . . . . . . ....
They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. Dinner is a casual affair. Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, Tin flatware. Two who are Mostly Good … 1. Full text of “The Bean Eaters” 2. Analysis of “The Bean Eaters” (from The Bean Eaters, 1960) . . . . . . . . . . . Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes on Writing and Life . . . . . . . . . . .
Into her mother’s bedroom to wash the ballooning body. “My mother is jelly-hearted and she has a brain of jelly: Sweet, quiver-soft, irrelevant. Not essential. Only a habit would cry if she should die. A pleasant sort of fool without the least iron. . . . Are you better, mother, do you think it will come today? 1. Full text of “Jesse Mitchell’s Mot...
From the 2017 centennial celebration of Gwendolyn Brooks Best known for her shorter lyrics, such as “We Real Cool”—a poem that first appeared in Poetry magazine in 1959—Brooks produced a prolific body of work in her lifetime, ranging from meditations on mass riots to experimental fiction.
By Gwendolyn Brooks. I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back. Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows. A girl gets sick of a rose. I want to go in the back yard now. And maybe down the alley, To where the charity children play. I want a good time today.
bio. Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks - Discover a collection of her most powerful works that weave together the threads of African American life, social justice, and personal resilience.
