tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post8678489765333110193..comments2023-10-08T01:50:01.981-07:00Comments on Gwendolyn Brooks: Analyzing "Sadie and Maud"Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14466978535925309913noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-35652861142789440032019-01-09T11:17:33.605-08:002019-01-09T11:17:33.605-08:00What was your inspiration? Politics, feeling or ma...What was your inspiration? Politics, feeling or maybe just what you see.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11184098540410311445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-46672289433476636292019-01-08T06:41:23.699-08:002019-01-08T06:41:23.699-08:00??????Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15104320275296228508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-68210944546285286572016-02-20T11:51:28.271-08:002016-02-20T11:51:28.271-08:00How would you be able to characterize the characte...How would you be able to characterize the characters as being similar?<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08031771147916065685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-77948284707645181502010-05-06T21:34:34.117-07:002010-05-06T21:34:34.117-07:00Nicely done. A wonderful job at taking on the int...Nicely done. A wonderful job at taking on the interpretation of the poem on your own. Insightful and shows a lot of work.Angela Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13136632973717723482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-11651020788059589812010-05-03T16:30:46.944-07:002010-05-03T16:30:46.944-07:00@ Faria Ali, I really appreciate your positive com...@ Faria Ali, I really appreciate your positive comment and you are right Gwendolyn Brooks is all about breaking the social norms and part of that is bringing light to them when it was not so common to do so. She represents the double bind issue in a lot of her poems which is definitely worth it for you to check out so I would encourage you to do so. You would appreciate her poems if you like reading about social norms, double binds. gender roles, and oppression.<br />Thanks for the comment.<br /><br />-GiauGwendolyn Elizabeth Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14466978535925309913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-31683856419237644662010-05-03T16:27:04.529-07:002010-05-03T16:27:04.529-07:00@ Gabriella, Well I definitely think it is very pr...@ Gabriella, Well I definitely think it is very progressive for a women to go to school like Maud did in the poem but it is not a bad progressive. Sadie got pregnant out of wedlock and that is more looked down upon than Maud going to school by far. Maud going to school would have been very pleasing to society because it meant she was educated, maybe not the way we are today, but she is still going to school. This poem is based on a comparison of two sisters, so Maud is the one that followed the social constructions more precisely. <br />I do agree that part of thus poem is about history but more about the legacy we leave behind and the life we live. Sadie will pass her lively spirit on to her daughters because she lived such a independent and free life while Maud being lonely in a house will not be able to do that and she lived a very constructed sad life. Boh will be forgotten eventually but it is about what you do with your life at the time.<br />Thanks for the comments.<br /><br />-GiauGwendolyn Elizabeth Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14466978535925309913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-46390268097138628972010-05-03T16:19:19.826-07:002010-05-03T16:19:19.826-07:00@Laura Michelle, Thank you for the positive feedba...@Laura Michelle, Thank you for the positive feedback on my poem analysis. Gwendolyn Brooks is a great poet and you should check more of her work out. Some of her poems have a contemporary feel to it which I think a lot of people like. I addressed the double bind issue in this poem because it is an ever occuring theme in her work which i think is great because it ties into our class lesson.<br /><br />-GiauGwendolyn Elizabeth Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14466978535925309913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-89613969914147097852010-04-30T22:57:20.340-07:002010-04-30T22:57:20.340-07:00First of all great job on the analysis and with ty...First of all great job on the analysis and with tying in the theme of double bind. Gwendolyn Brooks really seems to be questioning the norms that have been in our society for so long. I like how she paints the picture of the two sisters and their very different lives. <br />~Faria AliAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08414010411610552135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-17381208181044998492010-04-29T23:43:25.606-07:002010-04-29T23:43:25.606-07:00I agree that this poem shows a really accurate vie...I agree that this poem shows a really accurate view of the double bind, but I don't really agree with your assessment of Maud being "meek and mousey." I actually think that both daughters were, in their own ways, pursuing roads not commonly travelled. Of course, it is obvious that Sadie's behavior would be shocking for the time, but for Maud, as a woman during the 1940's, wasn't it also pretty progressive for her to be attending college? But I do completely agree with your connection of this poem to the idea of the double bind, as both sisters, following two different paths, both ended up forgotten in different ways, with one leaving the fine-toothed comb as her "heritage" and the other fading into history as just another lonely woman.<br />In this way, do you think that the poem could also be about history, what we leave behind, and our significance in society? It seems that both sisters were insigificant in the scheme of things and in the scope of society, as life simply moves on without them.<br />--Gabrielle KarcheskiGabriellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09119455031779797006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-79008910396727804542010-04-29T20:01:02.811-07:002010-04-29T20:01:02.811-07:00Wow! I really like your interpretation of the poem...Wow! I really like your interpretation of the poem, and I'm glad you chose this poem, simply because I didn't know any of her work and I find this poem particularly interesting. I especially like the fact that she used the word "livingest" during the forties. This poem definitely represents the double bind.Laura Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02037472854391127077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-3589106276165031912010-04-26T13:45:00.306-07:002010-04-26T13:45:00.306-07:00Well as I mentioned, these two sisters although v...Well as I mentioned, these two sisters although very different end up somewhat alone or a disgrace according to society. This happens because the social constructions pertaining to women presents a double bind sort of dilemma for female. Maud followed all the rules yet is unhappy because she chose to abide to her gender role while Sadie took life as it came and disregarded all of the gender roles and expectations for her. Even though Sadie is happy society and her own family still treat her like garbage because she broke her role as a women. Maud ends up aline in a house even though she followed all the guidelines set forth for her by the dominating hegemonic groups. As stated in the place that I analyzed sadie in Maud, this is a poem is a prime example of a double bind situation that has been presented to the two sisters and to most women. We are to uphold impossible standards at the risk of becoming unhappy and untrue to ourselves. <br /><br />-GiauGwendolyn Elizabeth Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14466978535925309913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885979149369893111.post-75214859423152879122010-04-26T12:51:08.480-07:002010-04-26T12:51:08.480-07:00In this poem, the author is comparing two sisters&...In this poem, the author is comparing two sisters's lives. Maud is the smarter of the two sisters and she went to college by her endeavor. However, in the end she was alone and die in the old house. So how to explain this thing? Why it could happen?<br /><br />--Anqi ZhangAnqi Zhang&Shuang Wuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13346048411140199660noreply@blogger.com