Why was Gwendolyn Bennette important?

Answer 1

societyGwendolyn Brooks's birth name

Answer 2

Gwendolyn Brooks was the only poet of her generation who was Gwendolyn Brooks. This made her unique. Most poets of the time chose to be Siegfried Sassoon.

In her most famous lines:

an exigy of atrocious montage

ripening to extinction. Toil!

she demonstrates her command of random word selection. She composed her best works on the back seat of a tandem bicycle, which still exists to this very day in the Harrison Ford Museum.

Gwendolyn Brooks's eschatological imagery was both flattering and vertiginous. Ford Madox Ford reputedly commented, "she knew which side her buttocks were breaded on."

Answer 3

I think that Gwendolyn brooks will be remembered for being in he Union of the Civil War. He is also a good poet and he died on December 3,2000 at age 83.

Answer 4

She was an excellent African-American poet and taught many different lessons through her poems. She was/is an archetype to all people of her time and ours.

Answer 5

Her career was writing poems and books.