Kitchenette building

Gwendolyn Brooks sad poem is about people in poverty who struggle with accomplishing and holding on to their dreams. She belives that dreamers should jsut dream because the way that they are living ey will never be succesful. There are three different strands of imagery in this poem. A kitchenette building is a small project building. The imagery of the project building symbolizes the small change of achieving a dream if a person is poor.  “But could a dream send up through onion fumes, Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes, And yesterday’s garbage ripening in the hall, Flutter, or sing an aria down these rooms”. This quote is an example of imagery. Gwendolyn makes a picture for the reader to feel what type of  life style she lives in.

Garbage is a symbol and imagery. It shows the reader how poor people are like garbage because of their low status. The imagery in the last quote of the poem, “Since Number Five is out of the bathroom now, we think of lukewarm water, hope to get in it”. Brooks describes what little ray of hope people of poverty have. The words dream, rent, feeding a wife, satisfying are the three great examples of imagery. They paint a picture that dreams can not match reality or feed a wife or satisfy a man, into the readers mind. Imagery makes this poem reality for the reader.