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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HUNCHBACK GIRL: SHE THINKS OF HEAVEN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, it is surely a blue place
Last Line: Proper myself, princess of properness.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples
First Line: My father, it is surely a blue place
Last Line: Proper myself, princess of properness.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples
My Father, it is surely a blue place,
And Straight. Right. Regular. Where I shall find
No need for scholarly nonchalance or looks
A little to the left or guards upon the
Heart to halt love that runs without crookedness
Along its crooked corridors. My Father,
It is a planned place surely. Out of coils,
Unscrewed, released, no more to be marvelous,
I shall walk straightly through most proper halls
Proper myself, princess of properness.
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