Theme Of The Tornado Child - 1090 Words

â€Å"Wickedness†: Examining the Theme of Darkness in Kwame Dawes â€Å"The Tornado Child†, Gwendolyn Brooks â€Å"We Real Cool,† and Ai â€Å"The Kid† American author and poet, Kwame Dawes, in his poem Tornado Child (which was written during the Harlem Renaissance for Rosalie Richardson) writes about the life of an African-American woman (Richardson) who often had to deal with racism and oppression. Gwendolyn Brooks, American writer and poet, wrote the poem â€Å"We Real Cool† (during the 1960’s assassination of the United States President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam war and Civil Rights Protest). In this poem, narrator Brooks is setting one of the most dominant attitudes, because she senses a lack of hope in the†¦show more content†¦In Dawes poem â€Å"Tornado Child,† wickedness is examined through freedom. There is an implication of racism based of the first few lines of the poe m. By the end of the first stanza racism is the direct subject. In the first stanza of the poem, Dawes states, â€Å"I am a tornado child. I come like a swirl of black and darken up your day; I whip it all into my womb, lift you and your things, carry you to where youve never been, and maybe, if I feel good, I might bring you back, all warm and scared†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Lines 1-5). The speaker of this poem shows the deficiency of instability in Rosalie’s life. According to Dawes in the first stanza, â€Å"heart humming wild like a bird after early sudden flight†¦ â€Å"(Line 6). The speaker also shows an expression that equates darker language showcasing a deficiency of predictability. Eventually the speaker acknowledges that he needed to take a different approach on telling Rosalie Richardson life story by stating, â€Å"I am a tornado child. I tremble at the elements. When thunder rolls my womb trembles, remembering the tweak of contractions that tightened to a wail when my mother pushed me out into the black of a tornado night†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Lines 7-11). 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