%0 Journal Article
%T Reexamining Gwendolyn Brooks¡¯ ¡°A Song In the Front Yard¡±: A Tri-Layered Interpretation
%A I. Blaze Mandela
%A Sarah Balter
%A Scott D. Stinson
%J Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal
%D 2011
%I Colonial Academic Alliance
%X The authors examine Gwendolyn Brooks' "A Song in the Front Yard," and destabilize the notion that the narrator is innocent and naive. The authors use a tri-layered analysis module: the ¡°epidermal¡± literalist examination illustrates the girl is not as na ve as she may seem, the ¡°dermal¡± metaphorical analysis of the literalist examination reveals underlying race and class issues, and lastly ¡°subcutaneously¡± distinguishing the significance of the symbolism in the poem contextualized in the era it is written offers the poem as an indictment of intra-racial segmentation and preliminary modes of integration.
%U http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1061&context=caaurj