Transcript mandi sine ren - mholtz

About Gwendolyn
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 Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka
Kansas on June 17th, 1917
 She grew up in a poor family which inspired her to
write about families that also faced struggles
 First Black author to win the Pulitzer Price
 Won a National Book Award and a National Medal
of Arts Award for her writings
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Sadie and Maud
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Maud went to college.
Sadie stayed home.
Sadie scraped life
With a fine toothed comb.
She didn't leave a tangle in
Her comb found every strand.
Sadie was one of the livingest chicks
In all the land.
Sadie bore two babies
Under her maiden name.
Maud and Ma and Papa
Nearly died of shame.
When Sadie said her last so-long
Her girls struck out from home.
(Sadie left as heritage
Her fine-toothed comb.)
Maud, who went to college,
Is a thin brown mouse.
She is living all alone
In this old house.
Paraphrase
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Sadie and Maud was written at a time when ideals and
expectations of women were enforced. Brooks
compares two sisters; emphasizing their different
lifestyle choices. The poem makes an unexpected turn
when Maud; who in the beginning seemed to have
everything going for her, ends up alone. Sadie who
ended up having two babies and shaming her parents,
did what made her happy despite what society tolled
her to do. She became the sister who had a fulfilled life
and shared her “ fine toothed comb” with her
daughters.
Poetic Devices
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 Some examples of rhyming used in the poem is:
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Home, Comb
Strand, Land
Name, Shame
Mouse, House
 Etc..
 Hyperbole used in the poem:
 “Maud and Ma and Papa nearly died of shame.”
Poetic Devices
Continued
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 Metaphor used in the poem:
 “ Maud who went to college, is a thin brown mouse.”
 Irony:
 “ Maud who went to college, is a thin brown mouse. She is
living all alone, in this old house.
 Figurative Language (Symbolism):
 “ She didn’t leave a tangle in”
 The tangles represents details; Sadie examined life in close
detail and didn’t leave any out.
Works Cited
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http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sadie-and-maud/
http://www.poemhunter.com/gwendolyn-brooks/
http://gwendolynbrookslekelsey.blogspot.com/2010/04/analyzing-sadieand-maud.html