Poem #22

"A Sunset of the City" By: Gwendolyn Brooks

She compares a sunset to many things in her life. She first compares it to her life and how she is older and her kids have grown so her life has calmed down a lot. Then she talks about how it gets cold when the sun goes down which you can compare to many things. She also refers it to the end of summer and winter coming and how the grass and flowers are 'forgetting' to take care of themselves so they are lying. Overall she compares it to how she is aging and how everything gets colder. I thought this was very interesting the way she compared so many things at once through one poem.