The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
Gwendolyn Brooks
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The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till by Gwendolyn Brooks
Release Date
Fri Jan 01 1960
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This is the companion poem to a longer account of Emmett Till’s lynching (or, its aftermath) from the perspective of Carolyn Bryant, the woman who accused Till of wolf whistling at her. That longer poem usually precedes this one and is titled, “A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile,...
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The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till Annotated
AFTER THE MURDER,
AFTER THE BURIAL
Emmett's mother is a pretty-faced thing;
the tint of pulled taffy.
She sits in a red room,
drinking black coffee.
She kisses her killed boy.
And she is sorry.
Chaos in windy grays
through a red prairie.
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The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till was written by Gwendolyn Brooks.
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Gwendolyn Brooks released The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till on Fri Jan 01 1960.