A Street in Bronzeville
A Novel that Changed America.
Introduction and Thesis
Over the years, poetry has influnce the lives of numerous people in the past and the current world. A vast number of peoms that are influenctial and is important in our current sociaty. “A street in Bronzeville”, witten by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1945. Brooks used her poetry to call the attention to the brutality and mistreated in the black community in Chicago. A hand full of Litterateur call Chicago their home, however, Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in Chicago, she was inspirated by the streets of Chicago for her writing her peom “A street in Bronzeville”.
About the Author
Gwedndolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kanas. Her family moved to Chicago as part of the Great Migration when she was six years old. She started her journey as a teenager, published her first poem in a children’s magazine at 13. At 16, approximately 75 poems were published. In 1950, she became the first Afraican-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for her book “Annie Allen”. She went to three different High school when she was growing up, the schools were intergated, the school she attented were Hyde Park High School; the all-Black Wendell Phillips Academy High School and Englewood High School.
She experience racial prejudice while attending these schools but she took her experience structure to comprehen the social dynamics in the U.S and that influence her writing. She grauadated from Wilson Junior College. She started to submit her work in the Chicago Defender which was the leading African American newspaper in Chiacgo at the time.
Regradless Brook, worked as a secretary to support herself, she was involved in poetry workshops, and organized by Inez Cunningham Stark, an affluent woman with a literary background. Brooks made headways during this time, she was collected official recognition for her work. In 1943, her work accpted an award from the Midwestern Writers’ Conference. On December 3, 2000, Brooks died from cancer in her home in Chicago.
About the Book
Published in 1954, by Brooks. This Book is a collection of poems that focus on the abused and mistreated of the urban blacks. The cahracters are intoruducted as a segregated urban group from Chicago. The characters ranged from characters range from workers in service-oriented jobs such as maids and beauty shop operators to preachers and more. The urban southside of Chicago is considered to be ghetto. “The Mother” in this poem who thought that her aborted children may have been like if she hadn’t settle upon on decision she had maded. This dignified the poem enlighten on just some of the challenges the community faced.
The poetic work incorporate sonnets, ballads, and blues rhythm. She also designed lengthy lyrical poems, which were long. Each poem is a magnificent planned to portrait of fictionalized characters of the black community.
Work Cited
“Gwendolyn Brooks Biography.” Edited by Biography.com Editors, The Biography.com Website, 2 Apr. 2014, www.biography.com/writer/gwendolyn-brooks. Accessed 30 March. 2021.
“A Street in Bronzeville — Summary” Society and Self, Critical Representations in Literature Ed.David Peck. eNotes.com, Inc. 1997 eNotes.com. <http://www.enotes.com/topics/street-bronzeville#summary-the-work>. Accessed 30 March. 2021.
“A Street in Bronzeville.” Oxford Reference. . . Date of access 30 Mar. 2021, <https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100536850>
