Sadie and Maud

Sadie and Maud

Introduction

The poem Sadie and Maud by the great poet Gwendolyn Brooks is the didactic picture of life, society, happiness and sadness. The poem contains two main characters of women, Sadie and Maud. In the observation of the poem, Sadie does not walk on the societal choices and lives her life with happiness. On other hand, Maud, the current graduate is the one who seems to have favorable future but conclude it with a lonely and bleak life by following the choices of society. The poem discovers the life of Sadie as the source of happiness and describe that choices are not always important for living a happy life. The theme of the poem relies on the difference of choices and opinions that describes the fact of happy life.

Discussion Analysis

It has been observed in the poem that Maud is the simply opposite character of Sadie, even the message of the poem can be delivered without her. If we closely glance over the poem, Maud is the framework of portraying beautiful poem in an amazing depiction. There are total 20 lines in which 15 lines are about Sadie and 5 about Maud. But it is interesting to find that the way poem is projected has the proper framework, as it starts with Maud and ends with Maud, and everything inside the poem is about Sadie. The content of the poem is very appealing for the reader to understand its theme, from the composition of the poem; we can clearly understand the values of the characters.

In the very initial differencing line of the poem describes the distinguish feature of these two characters, “Maud went to college. /Sadie stayed at home” (Brooks 1-2). It becomes easy for the reader to start making up his mind about the theme of the poem. These lines also portray the perception of promising future of both characters, but no one could assume the reality of life from the beginning. The ironic twist is the judgment which ends up with great surprise. The central character of the poem is Sadie, who firmly stands against the judgment of society and feels shame over her family member's expectations from society. At contrast, Maud gets higher studies, believing that she would satisfy the expectation of society or her parents, who should have been more victorious in life but unfortunately ends up with great dilemma of loneliness. The prediction ...