Kitchenette Building Poem Analysis
Poems give insight to the day to day lives of others as well as to the deep underlying meanings hidden all around us. The poem ‘kitchenette building’ is an amazing representation of how the everyday lives of others can be shown through poetry. In this poem, Gwendolyn Brooks shows how those in the kitchenette building she once lived in are not given the chance they deserve to live their dreams. Instead they are forced to go with the flow of the lives they currently live. The poem is showing how those in the building process the thought of having a dream come true. What does someone have without a dream of something better and the hope that comes along with that, and will those in the kitchenette building allow that thought to become reality?
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It begins with the word “We” (1), not just ‘we’ but, “We are things” (1). First of all, this shows that she is not only talking about herself but also the others around her in the building. This makes it seem as though the feeling from her that we are getting is mutual for the rest of those in the building. The mention of ‘things’, gives them an inhuman characteristic. It is as if they are not significant enough to have names but only be a thing in the back of someone’s mind. This is also seen in the use of “Number Five” (12) in the end of the poem, their importance does not change throughout the poem, rather it stays the same. Through they are things, the dream itself is …show more content…
Hope for a better future that makes you strive for something, and may help one get out of a current situation that isn’t so great. This poem reflects on how some are not even given a chance to have a dream, and how without that hope of a new dream, one can be weighed down greatly by everyday life. Those in the poem are not given a choice to do anything but the ‘involuntary plan already handed to them. The dream in the poem is always seen as unattainable, and that could be why it is only a thought in the back of their minds and unimportant to them, just as they feel they are unimportant to others. This unimportance makes it easy for them to forget the dream, just as they feel they have been forgotten by those who have created their involuntary
It begins with the word “We” (1), not just ‘we’ but, “We are things” (1). First of all, this shows that she is not only talking about herself but also the others around her in the building. This makes it seem as though the feeling from her that we are getting is mutual for the rest of those in the building. The mention of ‘things’, gives them an inhuman characteristic. It is as if they are not significant enough to have names but only be a thing in the back of someone’s mind. This is also seen in the use of “Number Five” (12) in the end of the poem, their importance does not change throughout the poem, rather it stays the same. Through they are things, the dream itself is …show more content…
Hope for a better future that makes you strive for something, and may help one get out of a current situation that isn’t so great. This poem reflects on how some are not even given a chance to have a dream, and how without that hope of a new dream, one can be weighed down greatly by everyday life. Those in the poem are not given a choice to do anything but the ‘involuntary plan already handed to them. The dream in the poem is always seen as unattainable, and that could be why it is only a thought in the back of their minds and unimportant to them, just as they feel they are unimportant to others. This unimportance makes it easy for them to forget the dream, just as they feel they have been forgotten by those who have created their involuntary