Summary Of A Sunset Of The City By Gwendolyn Brooks

In this stanza of “A Sunset of the City”, Gwendolyn Brooks depicts the feeling of loneliness through detachment from loved ones. This stanza begins by saying “Already [she] is no longer looked at with lechery or love.” (1). The use of “already” shows that she feels the indifference of her family has happened too quickly. Alliteration of the letter “l” and straightforward diction is also used to describe her loneliness. This sense of detachment is shown metaphorically in the next line when she states that “[her] daughters and sons have put [her] away with marbles and dolls” (2). This is further shown in a hyperbole to describe her children “putting her away”, when they only drifted apart from her. While her children are putting her away, “her