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By Cynthia Kirk
Broadcast: March 20, 2005
((THEME))
VOICE ONE:
I’m Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I’m Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA.
Today we tell about the life of award-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks1. She was
the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
((THEME))
VOICE ONE:
Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She had more
than twenty books published. She was known around the world for using poetry
to increase understanding about black culture in America.
Gwendolyn Brooks wrote many poems about being black during the Nineteen-
Forties and Nineteen-Fifties. Her poems described conditions among the poor,
racial inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems
about the struggles of black women.
But her skill was more than her ability to write about struggling black
people. She was an expert at the language of poetry. She combined traditional
European poetry styles with the African American experience.
VOICE TWO:
Gwendolyn Brooks once said that she wrote about what she saw and heard in the
street. She said she found most of her material looking out of the window of
her second-floor apartment house in Chicago, Illinois.
In her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the South Side of Chicago.
The South Side of Chicago is where many black people live. In her poems, the
South Side is called Bronzeville. It was “A Street in Bronzeville” that
gained the attention of literary3 experts in Nineteen-Forty-Five. Critics
praised her poetic4 skill and her powerful descriptions about the black
experience during the time. The Bronzeville poems were her first published
collection.
Here she is reading from her Nineteen-Forty-Five collection, “A Street in
Bronzeville.”
((GWENDOLYN BROOKS))
“My father, it is surely a blue place and straight. Right, regular, where I
shall find no need for scholarly nonchalance5 or looks a little to the left or
guards upon the heart.”
VOICE ONE:
In Nineteen-Fifty, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to win
the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the prize for her second book of
poems called “Annie Allen.” “Annie Allen” is a collection of poetry about
the life of a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and mother. She
experiences loneliness, loss, death and being poor.
Mizz Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life.
Her next work was a novel written in Nineteen-Fifty-Three called “Maud
Martha.” “Maud Martha” received little notice when it first was published.
But now it is considered an important work by some critics. Its main ideas
about the difficult life of many women are popular among female6 writers
today.
VOICE TWO:
Gwendolyn Brooks wrote poems about the black experience in America. She
described the anger many blacks had about racial injustice7 and the feeling of
being different. She used poetry to criticize8 those who did not show respect
for the poor. Yet for all the anger in her writing, Gwendolyn Brooks was
considered by many to be a gentle spirit and a very giving person.
By the early Nineteen-Sixties, Mizz Brooks had reached a high point in her
writing career. She was considered one of America’s leading black writers.
She was a popular teacher. She was praised for her use of language and the
way people identified with her writing.
(MUSIC)
VOICE ONE:
Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas in Nineteen-Seventeen. But she
grew up in Chicago. She began writing when she was eleven years old. She
mailed several poems to a community newspaper in Chicago to surprise her
family.
Broadcast: March 20, 2005
((THEME))
VOICE ONE:
I’m Shirley Griffith.
VOICE TWO:
And I’m Sarah Long with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA.
Today we tell about the life of award-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks1. She was
the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
((THEME))
VOICE ONE:
Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She had more
than twenty books published. She was known around the world for using poetry
to increase understanding about black culture in America.
Gwendolyn Brooks wrote many poems about being black during the Nineteen-
Forties and Nineteen-Fifties. Her poems described conditions among the poor,
racial inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems
about the struggles of black women.
But her skill was more than her ability to write about struggling black
people. She was an expert at the language of poetry. She combined traditional
European poetry styles with the African American experience.
VOICE TWO:
Gwendolyn Brooks once said that she wrote about what she saw and heard in the
street. She said she found most of her material looking out of the window of
her second-floor apartment house in Chicago, Illinois.
In her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the South Side of Chicago.
The South Side of Chicago is where many black people live. In her poems, the
South Side is called Bronzeville. It was “A Street in Bronzeville” that
gained the attention of literary3 experts in Nineteen-Forty-Five. Critics
praised her poetic4 skill and her powerful descriptions about the black
experience during the time. The Bronzeville poems were her first published
collection.
Here she is reading from her Nineteen-Forty-Five collection, “A Street in
Bronzeville.”
((GWENDOLYN BROOKS))
“My father, it is surely a blue place and straight. Right, regular, where I
shall find no need for scholarly nonchalance5 or looks a little to the left or
guards upon the heart.”
VOICE ONE:
In Nineteen-Fifty, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to win
the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the prize for her second book of
poems called “Annie Allen.” “Annie Allen” is a collection of poetry about
the life of a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and mother. She
experiences loneliness, loss, death and being poor.
Mizz Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life.
Her next work was a novel written in Nineteen-Fifty-Three called “Maud
Martha.” “Maud Martha” received little notice when it first was published.
But now it is considered an important work by some critics. Its main ideas
about the difficult life of many women are popular among female6 writers
today.
VOICE TWO:
Gwendolyn Brooks wrote poems about the black experience in America. She
described the anger many blacks had about racial injustice7 and the feeling of
being different. She used poetry to criticize8 those who did not show respect
for the poor. Yet for all the anger in her writing, Gwendolyn Brooks was
considered by many to be a gentle spirit and a very giving person.
By the early Nineteen-Sixties, Mizz Brooks had reached a high point in her
writing career. She was considered one of America’s leading black writers.
She was a popular teacher. She was praised for her use of language and the
way people identified with her writing.
(MUSIC)
VOICE ONE:
Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas in Nineteen-Seventeen. But she
grew up in Chicago. She began writing when she was eleven years old. She
mailed several poems to a community newspaper in Chicago to surprise her
family.
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1 brooks | |
n.小溪( brook的名词复数 ) | |
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2 sin | |
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3 literary | |
adj.文学(上)的 | |
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4 poetic | |
adj.富有诗意的,有诗人气质的,善于抒情的 | |
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5 nonchalance | |
n.冷淡,漠不关心 | |
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6 female | |
adj.雌的,女(性)的;n.雌性的动物,女子 | |
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7 injustice | |
n.非正义,不公正,不公平,侵犯(别人的)权利 | |
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8 criticize | |
vt.批评;批判,指责;评论,评价 | |
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9 divorced | |
adj.离婚的;分开的;不相干的;脱离的v.与…离婚(divorce的过去式和过去分词);分离;与某人离婚,判某人离婚 | |
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10 teaching | |
n.教学,执教,任教,讲授;(复数)教诲 | |
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11 grants | |
n.(来自私人或公共授予机构的)基金( grant的名词复数 );补助金;授给物(如财产、授地、专有权、补助、拨款等)v.(退一步)承认( grant的第三人称单数 );(尤指正式地或法律上)同意;准许;让渡 | |
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12 lurk | |
n.潜伏,潜行;v.潜藏,潜伏,埋伏 | |
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13 affected | |
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14 evident | |
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15 curving | |
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16 encounter | |
v.遇到,偶然碰到;遭遇;n.遭遇;意外的相见 | |
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17 honor | |
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18 honors | |
n.礼仪;荣典;礼节; 大学荣誉学位;大学优等成绩;尊敬( honor的名词复数 );敬意;荣誉;光荣 | |
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19 humanities | |
n.人文学 | |
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20 federal | |
adj.联盟的;联邦的;(美国)联邦政府的 | |
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21 works | |
n.作品,著作;工厂,活动部件,机件 | |
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23 toward | |
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24 healing | |
n.康复,复原adj.有治疗功用的v.(使)愈合( heal的现在分词 );治愈;(使)结束;较容易忍受 | |
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25 identity | |
n.身份,本体,特征;同一(性),一致 | |
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