... Prize for literature in 1948. M. Theodore Roethke- American poet Theodore Roethke won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1953 poetry collection The Waking. N. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), American poet, the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. Born in Topeka, Kansas, Brooks graduated from Wilson Junior College in Chicago, Illinois, in 1936. Her first book of poems, A Street in Bronzeville (1945), was praised ... by critics as a clear and moving evocation of life in an urban black neighborhood. For the collection Annie Allen (1949), Brooks was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer Prize in poet...

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... read. It also shows where the poem is going and gives clues to its eventual outcome. A great example of the use of tone in a poem is in Gwendolyn Brooks "We Real Cool" on page 744. Brooks uses tone to convey an upbeat tempo. She uses "We Real Cool" (1) to show power and self-reliance. She shapes the poem to lead the reader unsuspectingly ... to the final outcome of "Die Soon" (10). Brooks uses the abrupt ending of "We" to show unity among the group and how they stand together until their demise. The tone of the poem expresses how the pool players ... ...

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... never stop making choices. This poem adds to the message that my poem portrays. Another poem that expresses what can happen when a choice is made is, We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks. Chrissy has an excellent write up on the poem's meaning and metaphor. In her write up, Chrissy explains that the poem "is about the life experience of someone who has ... ...

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