Analyzing Gwendolyn Brooks 'Poems Sadie And Maud'

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In the Short poem “Sadie and Maud” I did not understand what the author was trying to say. The way Gwendolyn Brooks uses her words in the poem is very confusing to me. After reading the background information I started to understand a little more what Gwendolyn Brooks was trying to say in the poem. I think The Gwendolyn could have been a little bit clearer in her writing. This way the reader would not have a hard time trying to understand what she was saying in the poem.
I feel that if the people back in her time read the poem could understand and relate to the poem. In this poem Gwendolyn used some good metaphors showing her skills as ta writer. She used a very clever metaphor in the first stanza to catch the reader’s attention. She used the

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