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Brooks on "Gay Chaps at the Bar
["Gay Chaps at the Bar" is] A sonnet series in off-rhyme, because I felt it was an off-rhyme situation--I did think of that. I first wrote the one sonnet, without thinking extensions. I wrote it because of a letter I got from a soldier who included that phrase in what he was telling me; and then I said, there are other things to say about what's going on at the front and all, and I'll write more poems, some of them based on the stuff of letters that I was getting from several soldiers, and I felt it would be good to have them all in the same form, because it would serve my purposes throughout.
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Title | Brooks on "Gay Chaps at the Bar | Type of Content | Other Writing by Poets |
Criticism Author | Criticism Target | Gwendolyn Brooks | |
Criticism Type | Poet | Originally Posted | 23 Sep 2014 |
Publication Status | Excerpted Criticism | Publication | No Data |
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Contexts | No Data | Tags | Sonnet, off-rhyme, solider, Letters, World War II |