Ballad of Pearl May Lee in Gwendolyn Brooks Street in Bronzeville Essa

lay of Pearl May Lee in Gwendolyn Brooks Street in BronzevilleGwendolyn Brooks ballad of Pearl May Lee came from her criminal record called Street in Bronzeville. This book exemplifies Brooks dual place in American literature (Smith, 2). It is associated with Modernist poetry, as well as the Harlem Renaissance. This book is cognize for its theme of victimizing the poor, black woman. Ballad of Pearl May Lee is a poem that uses tone to represent the complex pique of the ballad. While tone and mood are often used interchangeably, there are differences even though they often work together in a poem. A poems mood refers to the atmosphere or state of mind that the poem takes on. This is often conveyed through the tone, which is the style or manner of expression through writing. In this poem, let uses tone to enhance the mood. This paper will shed light on the idea that the mood of the poem is affected by the tone in some(prenominal) ways in order to make the mood inconsisten t. Some of the ways that tone does this is by several episodic shifts in the scene of the poem, the repetition of stanzas at the end of the poem, the use of diction, and the change in the speakers stance throughout the poem. These poetic techniques enhance the speakers current feeling of self-pity and vengeful satisfaction by her mixed emotions associated with this reflection. To begin, the episodic shifts in scenes in this ballad enhance the speakers emotional confusion. Almost every stanza has its own beat and place in the speakers memory, which sparks different emotions with each. For example, the first stanza is her memory of herself at her house and it has a mocking, carefree mood. She says, I cut my lungs with laughter, meaning that... ... was meant to function as insight as to how Brooks used the tone to create a mood that was inconsistent with an overlying theme of self-pity. She has a way with words, and I feel that this ballad is very representative of her ski ll as a writer.Works CitedMootry, Maria K. Chocolate Mabbie and Pearl May Lee Gwendolyn Brooks and the Ballad Tradition. Vale Rutgers Univerisity Libraries. http//galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=rutgers&srchtp.htmlSmith, Gary. Gwendolyn Brooks A Street in Bronzeville, the Harlem Renaissance and the Mythologies of Black Women. Vale Rutgers University Libraries. http//galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?locID=rutgers&frmhyp=1&srchtp=athr&c=2&.htmlSollors, Werner. An Anthology of Interracial Literature. Ballad of Pearl May Lee. New York University Press. 2004. p. 577-580.