Gwendolyn Brooks/Old Black Woman, Homeless & Indistinct

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A 4 page exposition of this poem by Gwendolyn Brooks. "To An Old Black Woman, Homeless and Indistinct" is a homage to a life of promise, beauty and talent that has been wasted and discarded by society, like a piece of rubbish. The juxtaposition of the very rich against the very poor suggests the class-based nature of society and the inequities, the heartbreaking injustice of such a system. No additional sources cited.