Showing posts with label Gwendolyn Brooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gwendolyn Brooks. Show all posts
Thursday, 23 August 2018
The OverviewIt is such a bad sight to be in an unwanted confinement_ be it imprisonment, be it sickness, be it captivity, be it compulsory babysitting. The truth is no one loves to be denied freedom_ not even poets.In the poem "Letter to Martha 17" Dennis Brutus wrote of the negative effect of confinement. Stephen Spender did the same in the poem "My Parents Kept Me From Children Who Were Rough"Gwendolyn Brooks also expressed her unhappiness with...
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