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==Life For My Child Is Simple    aa ==

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 = Gwendolyn Brooks   = = Pg 968     = [|Read This Poem]

**__Erin's Analytical Paragraph__** This poem is basically about wanting to do what the world and/or society thinks is wrong. “And we both want joy of undeep and unabiding things.”(Brooks 968) That quote supports my idea by saying that both the author and her son want to do things that society does not usually approve of. “His lesions are legion, / But reaching is his rule.” (Brooks 968) With this quote, I think the author is saying that her son does things that he wants to do, without caring if it seems bad. The author makes it seem like the idea of her sons actions are still amazing because he keeps on doing what he wants to do, without care to what is the stereotypically right thing. I think the author is trying to get the message out that if we keep trying to do what we want, then we will eventually get what we want out of life and be a little happier. Sometimes going around the stereotypically right thing might just help us out. If someone wants to do something bad enough, they will do it, and if it hurts them, then they will eventually learn.

**__Ryan's Analytical Paragraph:__** This poem is about the author’s child not being afraid to take chances and risks, while she is. While she is afraid of taking risks, her child is her inspiration to start taking more chances and doing things outside of her comfort zone. The poem is showing how the child is so young that he is naïve to pain and consequence. The child knows that some things may cause him pain, like when the author says the child is “fingering the electric outlet,” he knows that the result may be him being shocked, but he does it anyway. This is because the child is young, naïve, and curious. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 68)"> Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7th 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. As a young girl, her parents urged her to read and do well in school, however, she was very shy. She spent most of her time writing, and by age 16 she had written over seventy-five poems. She later graduated from Wilson Junior College in 1936. In 1939 she married Henry L. Blakeley, and they had two children together. In 1950 Brooks was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and she was the first African American in history to get this award. In 1985 she was named the poetry consultant for the Library of Congress. Chicago State University established the Gwendolyn Brooks Center on its campus in 1990. Gwendolyn Brooks died of cancer at her Chicago home on December 3, 2000.
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<span style="color: rgb(8, 6, 20)"> __<span style="color: rgb(9, 11, 10)">**Title:** __ The title of this poem suggests the poems theme. The theme and the title both describe how life for a child is different than it may be for an adult. This could be for many different reasons. One may be that as a child, what you say and do is usually excused because of your age. Another may be that certain things are acceptable for a child to do because they are expected at such a young age, while if an adult did the same thing, they might be looked at as a bad person because of it. <span style="color: rgb(9, 11, 10)"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="color: rgb(137, 234, 31)">**__<span style="color: rgb(21, 172, 26)">Genre __** This is a lyrical poem because it expresses the thoughts and feelings of the author. Some emotions and ideas that are expressed in this poem consist of hopefulness, happiness, contentment, rebellion, and intelligence. The speaker is the mother of the child being described. The situation is that the speaker, the child’s mother, is realizing that her son needs to do the wrong thing sometimes, the opposite of what is expected, to learn the right thing in the end.

The poem is not really divided but is all in one stanza. Also, the verse type used in this poem is blank verse. Since this poem is only presented in one stanza, the whole poem shows the main idea. This poems form contributes to the meaning by making the poem into somewhat of a storyline.
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In the poem, there seems to be an overal theme of innocence/experience. The child in the poem is so young that he does not have much experience with things, so he strides to do things which he does not know the outcome of. Innocence comes into play with this because the child is so young that he does not know that some of the things he does are wrong in the eyes of society; he just does the things that he does merely to do them, not for anyone but himself and to gain understanding and experience of his own.
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