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Analysis Of Gwendolyn Brooks The Body Of A Ballad

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The Body of a Ballad
The point of poetry is to make a point--the point of the ballad of the light-eyed little girl is to describe death as a childhood experience, and Gwendolyn Brooks utilized the ballad form to accentuate the purpose she intended for her poem. At some point children come into contact with the reality of death, and for many children like Sweet Sally, the benchmark is reached through the death of a pet. Sweet Sally experiences the reality of death as she simultaneously reaps painful consequences because “...she had starved [the pet] to death but not|For lack of love, be sure.” Sweet Sally, light-eyed, is innocent, though death is inevitable as she “sprinkled nail polish on dead dandelions.” The ballad form is Gwendolyn Brooks’
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