I'll Stay by Gwendolyn Brooks
Summary: I'll Stay by Gwendolyn Brooks is a poem about one's ability to stay confident in one's self
Characters:
Speaker - "I'll stay" is the theme that covers the poem and is projected by the speaker
Section 1:
- The speaker talks about the plates staying on the edge as if proud that they are doing so
- The speaker talks about the confidence about staying with what one "believes" will happen
- The speaker talks about the possitive input that the speaker's mother told her about being the "sun", the "light"
- The speaker tells the audience that the mother of the speaker tells her to be "Efficient"
- The speaker repeats the words "I'll stay" over and over
Other Notes:
- Gwedolyn Brooks was the first Pulitzer Prize winner to be of African-American descent.
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