Read Gwendolyn Brooks' Poetry

Gwendolyn Brooks(1917-2000) is a famous American Black poet,who has written thousands of poetry all her life.She did engage the readers and critics,both Black and White,and earned the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 for her work of Annie Allen.Her poetry fuses the culture and ideology of many races,as well as the poetic forms and skills used in metrical verse and free verse.Brooks' poetry is out of the Black poets who are only concerned about racism.She has also explored the nature of sexism and classism in the United States.This thesis will discuss the theme,character,poetic form and art of Brooks' poetry.Brooks writes the polite of Black in America and explores the reasons.Her poetry is the song for Black to sing for freedom and equality.Her characters are common and poor black people who live under the huge racism.They struggle for human right and race equality,but never win anyone all their life.Even so,they still have optimism about the future.These "Anti-heroic" characters are the typical characters stand for Black in the United States.Brooks demonstrates a wide range:metrical verse and free verse.Before 1967,she wrote many sonnets and ballads.She can control every form appropriately.She used idiomatic language,ordinary speech and short line,especially the fusion with the rhythm of sonnet and ballad.In her free verse,she uses Black English and colloquial speech.She tries her best to make her poetry easy to understand,especially for the poor Black who have never had the chance to get into a college.Like most American black poets,Brooks prefers realism to romanticism.She experiments with a wide range of narrative and poetic strategies and creates an idiom which fuses with both the colloquial and austere rhythms.She is an expert in language,especially in ordinary speech.She learns from the black music,Bruce,to control the rhythm,and studies from Black to use ordinary speech,even slang in her poetry.All these compose Brooks' art and make her poetry very different from other poets in the Unites States.