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Gwendolyn Brooks. By: Samantha Ferraro . Harlem Renaissance . Also known as the black mecca. After the American Civil War Harlem earned its status as "the capital of black America. The Harlem Renaissance took place in New York.
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Gwendolyn Brooks By: Samantha Ferraro
Harlem Renaissance Also known as the black mecca. After the American Civil War Harlem earned its status as "the capital of black America. The Harlem Renaissance took place in New York. Harlem was a place where African Americans could become free, and express themselves.
Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7th 1917 in Topeka Kansas. She attended many different schools in her lifetime. She attended the Hyde Park High School, she also attended and graduated from Wilson Junior college in 1936. Her first ever poem “Eventide” was published by the American Childhood magazine. A street in Bronzeville her first published poetry book was published in 1940. She dedicated herself to become in the “Black arts movement.”
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. You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh, Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye. I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children. I have contracted. I have eased My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck. I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized Your luck And your lives from your unfinished reach, If I stole your births and your names, Your straight baby tears and your games, Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches, And your deaths Gwendolyn Brooks
(Poem Continued) If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.Though why should I whine,Whine that the crime was other than mine?--Since anyhow you are dead.Or rather, or instead,You were never made.But that too, I am afraid,Is faulty: oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said?You were born, you had body, you died.It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.
The Tone of the Poem The tone of this poem portrays sadness, weakness, negativity, and shocking elements. Bold is another good way to describe this poem. Gwendolyn Brooks makes you actually feel that abortion is so wrong because you are killing a person that never had a chance to live. She is very compelling with all of her word choices, because she is very compassionate about this topic. It is as if she had one before; interesting.
Poetic Devices dim dears is an example of Alliteration. Voices of the wind is an example of personification.
Something interesting about Harlem Renaissance. New York was one of the few states that outlawed school segregation. Blacks moved from all over the country to get an education in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s.
