Gwendolyn Brooks wrote "The
Vacant Lot". It is left to somewhat
of the imagination to interpret the poem.
It reminds me of gossip; you see an image or occurrence with your eyes
and then make assumptions without knowing what is going on with the
characters. The use of vocabulary such
as: "fat little form" and "squat
fat daughter" suggests that the narrator believes that these people aren't
"good" in their eyes and the poem is almost a tribute to these
"bad" people's house being gone.
I'm confused about why Mrs. Coley is bursting out of the basement
door?? The squat little daughter is
letting men come and go from the house when the man of the house is gone,
suggesting there is some form of sexual acts being committed, whether
prostitution, cheating, or benign I can't tell.
There may also be a racial part in this.
The poem distinctly states that the son-in-law is African. Is the narrator's view one of a racist, or is
Brooks merely adding this tid-bit of information?
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