A song in the front yard Brooks

Brooks was able to portray the good girls who wanted to be bad as said in her biography before the poems. I enjoyed reading Brooks work because it was easy to relate to or to understand. In this particular work I think that by saying simply in the first few lines" I've stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back." She is speaking of a woman who has lived the "up" life in the guidance of her mother. The boring life, the educated life, the mannered life, etc. Now she wants to see what the other side is what is behind the scences of the higher class people. She wants to be able to stay out late, to wear provocative clothing, to entice men, to have fun, to wear make-up. Every woman can understand this. The higher class women want a taste of what the other side is as well as the lower class women wanting to see what it would be like to live priveleged. " Where it's rough and untended and hungry weed grows." She wants to be exactly where things seem as they appear instead of where things don't always seem as they appear. In the backyard there are no secrets everyone is who they are and they have nothing to hide. A slice of honesty and bravery. Even though many might not consider a night woman or a charity child the best person in society it is honest. These people that have nothing to hide live the most because they are exposed. It is brutally real. Yes they might grow up to be "bad women" or go to jail. But it is this pathed destiny that makes this girl crave it. It is a white girl wanting to live as a black girl and a black girl maybe even wanting to live as a white girl. These two will never pass though because race expressess such a difference even unconsciously that it is not possible. Both of these girls and races may want what the other has but it is that symbolism that sticks out in the poem. No matter what the life is neither is better than the other.