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William Beaman Professor McBride English 2650-L01 2 March 2016 Analysis of “A Song In The Front Yard” “A Song In The Front Yard” by Gwendolyn Brooks talks about a young girl who is tired of the life she is living and wants to experience something new. The girl has a privileged life at home, and now she wants her own freedom. She is tired of the prim and proper ways of life. The girl gets sick of things being perfect. She wants to venture out to a new place and experience new things that she normally doesn’t do. The young girl of the poem reveals how she is ready to leave the “front yard” to go to the “back yard”. The speaker, who is the young girl, talks about her situation in a first person point of view. She is telling everyone how she wants to leave her front yard to go to the back yard because she wants to play with the other kids and maybe get into trouble. She wants to do things she hasn’t been able to do. The diction of the poem is formal language. There …show more content…

The speaker expresses her internal conflict through the rose, “ A girl gets sick of a rose” (4). She is tired of everything being perfect, which is crazy, but with everything being perfect all the time, it just gets old. The tone of the poem is both yearning and modest. The speaker, a young girl who yearns for freedom, and when her mother tells her that no good will come out of it, the young girl says “But I say it’s fine”. She doesn’t want to listen to her mother, because the mother is right and the girl doesn’t want to hear the truth about it, she wants to see it for herself. The tone is comparatively consistent with the poem, and accompaniments the longing for freedom. The tone of the poem actually reveals the young girl’s lack of

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