Close Up We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 1

Born
She was a child when
Her book she continued

Answer 1

1917
Harlem reinassance was resting and establishing new poetic styles for American poetry
A street in bronzeville the adventure

Question 2

With its ? It conveys the power of the ballad in ? Disguising a ?

Answer 2

Suppressed narrative concealed drama communal theme
Contemporary context
Sharp public tone with deceptively musical cadences

Question 3

No one reading the poem could doubt the
The short lines become
The music of ? And the bleakness of ? Are played off against each other in these like?

Answer 3

Irony and passionate engagement of the poet
Daggers of irony
Courage / reality/ brief jumpy stanzas/ figures in a fairytale

Question 4

And the moral is clear ?
Society is about to
The poem reminds us that the role of the Ballad can also be
That beneath the entertainment ?

Answer 4

Personal risk is endangered
Individual
Moral and satirical
The balladeer can make a secret and powerful claim on the reader