Poem
"Queen of the Blues" by Gwendolyn Brooks is a peom about a woman named Mame who spends her time at the Midnight Club singing the blues. This poem tells a story of a somewhat depressed woman because of the fact that she has no one to love her. Her mother passed away two to three years earlier, she has no brothers to defend or care about her. She also has no kids to nurture and her father just uses her for her money. Mame goes to this club to get some kind of appreciation in her life or at least recognition for her effort at singing in front of a group of strangers. Mame is soon surprised and becomes quickly upset when she notices that the men at the club don't respect her. Whenever she passes them they treat her like she is a piece of meat. They don't treat her like a laady becuase they slap her thighs and pinch her arms. As a lady, Mame wants the men to tip there hats to her just as they do to any other woman. Her burning question at the end of the poem is "Why don't they tip their......
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