29 Andre Gwendolyn Brooks

Fill in the blanks:

The imagination of the poet is (a) -----. We should know (b) ----- the poet “Gwendolyn Brooks was a highly (c) ------ , much-honored poet, with the distinction of (d) ----- the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. She also was (e) ------ consultant to the Library of (f) ----- —the first black woman to (g) ----- that position—and poet laureate of the (h) ----- of Illinois.” This poem she wants to give an idea about (i) ------. In the poem the writer (j) ----- to find out the choose able parents such as she (k) ----- to get a mother in dream who will be (l) ------ mother. In the same way she wants to (m) ----- out a father. May be it will be (n) ----- and stout. At last the poet sprang awake and she thought (o) ------ she know what type of (p) ----- she would take. She found out the parents who love (q) ----- surprised and made her glad, they stay (r) ----- beside her, talk and share everything(s) ----- or sad. Yes, she knows them who always are (t) ----- in the side.

Explanation:

1.       There were so many there, it seemed,

Short and tall and thin stout. ----7 marks

2.      And this surprised and made me glade;

They were the ones I was always had. ----5

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