Hyper-Link Guide to Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till"

"The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till"

by Gwendolyn Brooks

Guide to the HyperText version of the poem

Some questions about the links I made

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Why would Brooks choose the ballad genre for this poem? How does the ballad link help you navigate this poem?
Go to the "Form in Action" page of our class Web site. How does the information on the ballad (and the links on the ballad page) help you navigate this poem?

From the links in the poem, what do you know about Emmett Till? Who was he?
Why do some of the links focus so strongly on the role of Emmett Till's mother?
From the links in the poem, what role did Till and his mother play in the U.S. Civil Rights movement? How do these links help you navigate the poem as a whole?

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Why would Brooks choose the ballad genre for this poem? How does the ballad link help you navigate this poem? Go to the "Form in Action" page of our class Web site. How does the information on the ballad (and the links on the ballad page) help you navigate this poem?	From the links in the poem, what do you know about Emmett Till? Who was he? Why do some of the links focus so strongly on the role of Emmett Till's mother? From the links in the poem, what role did Till and his mother play in the U.S. Civil Rights movement? How do these links help you navigate the poem as a whole?

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Last modified February 17, 2001