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Good Vs. Bad Essay, Research Paper

GOOD vs. BAD

Why doesn’t life let us explore the world? Do we have to follow the same path as the majority? The world is actually not that of a bad place to live in. If the world isn’t that bad of a place, than why are we are restricted in going places. I am not talking about places that are private property; instead I am talking about places that we are not going because we are plainly scared, the reason is fear. As someone once said, “We fear the thing we most want.” I wonder if this is any true; are we really scared of things we want or are the things we want that horrible that we don’t want them? Well, these types of questions are portrayed in three poems. The first two poems are by Gwendolyn Brooks, they are “A Song in the Front yard” and “The Bean Eater,” and the other one is Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.”

“A Song in the Front Yard” starts off with someone who wants to see what the “back yard” is like. I believe the narrator is a girl has been a “good” person, but now she wants to go to the “back yard” and experience the rough side of life. From the first and second line, “I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back…” I perceive the “front yard” as being a place where the good people should be, it’s where everyone is nice and polite to each other, it is the “good” area. On the other hand, I see the “back yard” as an opposite of the “front yard.” It’s a place where everyone is a bit rougher on the edges, and more rebellious type than the people in the “front yard.” The “back yard” would be the “bad” area. The “front yard” has roses growing in it, where as the “back yard” would have weeds growing. I know most of us would rather have roses growing than weeds. The girl feels she is stuck in the “front yard,” and that there is nothing to do in it for fun. For example, if the girl wanted to play in the dirt or the rain, but she can’t because she is trapped in the “front yard.” However, if she were in the “back yard” she would be able to do all those things and more. The girl would rather be stuck in the “back yard” than the “front yard,” because at least there she would be able to have some fun. From the eighth line, “I want a good time today,” the girl is trying to say that she wants to go to the “back yard” and have an enjoyable time because she is getting bored and irritated by staying in the “front yard” all the time. For instance, everyone is having fun by going to the lake but she can’t go because only the “bad” people, the people in the “back yard,” can only go. The girl feels frustrated and cornered by staying in the “front yard” and being a “good” person.

In addition, the ninth and twelfth line states, “They do some wonderful things” and “How they don’t have to go in at quarter to nine,” explains that the girl is bothered by the other children getting to stay later than her. She feels alone and angry because the others are out in the “back yard” and she isn’t. Moreover, when she does out to play in the “front yard,” she has a curfew and has to come home early, whereas the children in “back yard” don’t have to go home as early as she does and are in the “back yard.” I think she wants to have something related with the children in the “back yard,” or even be like them, and I believe this is another reason for her to go back there. The mother tries to tell the girl that the children in the “back yard” will grow up and become bad people or even end up in jail. Nevertheless, the girl doesn’t care because she is so in need to have something similar to the other children that she wants to take that risk. She doesn’t even mind if she grows up and becomes a bad person or even does go to jail, but as long as she gets to go the “back yard” and have some fun. The girl is willing to give up anything and become anything, but only if she gets to go to the “back yard”.

I think most of us can relate to what the girl is going through. I know that at some point in our lives we have went through what she is going through in the poem, “A Song in the Front Yard.” Therefore, does this mean that everyone who does go out in the “back yard” turns out bad, or is this just an assumption that we all make. I know there are times that we do think of going to the “back yard”, it could be because we want something different, a change, or maybe we want to go there just check it out. But, if we do go there for a look, does that turn us into a bad person, I think not. Mostly everyone of us has their own “back yard” that they want to go to or have gone too, and most us who have been there and came back are still good people. We haven’t turn out “bad” by going just visiting the “back yard.” I think everyone should get the most of out of life cause its short and you never know what you are going to miss by not taking that one chance. The point I am trying to make is that this poem shows us going to the “back yard” makes a person turn out “bad”, however, this can’t be true because the people who have been there and have come back are still “good” people. Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “The Bean Eaters” shows us that when someone does go to the “back yard” and does not come back, what happens.

“The Bean Eaters” is a poem that is a little different from the other Gwendolyn Brooks poem, “A Song in the Front Yard.” “The Bean Eaters” is about an old couple that is living their daily, and usual lives. The first line from the poem, “They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair,” tells us that this poem is about an old couple who are living a monotonous life. Their life is showed by the kind of food they eat, which is mostly beans. Also by the kind of utensils

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