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Metaphors By Gwendolyn Brooks Essay

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Often fairy tales, or fantasy stories in general, share a similar formula. A beautiful princess and a handsome prince to sweep the princess of her feet and save her from an evil individual, and they’ll have a happy-ever-after, right? The metaphors used by Gwendolyn Brooks in A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi While a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon, brings out a more meaningful image when one read it between the lines,and the way Gwendolyn Brooks uses them, more specially the “Prince” isn’t the prince, but is a darker man, a murder, helps creates emotion in the poem.
The poem depicts a female narrative and her interaction with her prince, her husband. The metaphors (the prince, Dark Lord, and Maid Mild) used by Brooks are a way for …show more content…

Gwendolyn Brooks begins the poem with the narrator, refers herself as a “Maid Mild” and in the first stanza the narrator questions herself while, reveled in the second stanza, that she’s in the kitchen and cooking. Brooks writes in the second stanza “(the narrator) is pursued by the Dark Villain. Rescued by the Fine Prince.” (line 8). And Brooks refers to this as, what all fairy tales do, as happiness, but that’s far from the truth as revealed throughout the rest of the poem. The narrator, like Rudolph Reed in The Ballad of Rudolph Reed, fairy tale or American dream is a cruel, harsh of reality as the prince isn’t chivalrous as a prince should be and is a cruel man that doesn’t see her self-worth. The metaphors help creates and change the harshness of when readers recognize names in fairy tales or fantasy, and that’s what they all are, fantasies. The Dark Villain isn’t an evil person, a male typically, but a fourteen-year-old black boy, Emmet Till. Emmet Till, like

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