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ROSS GAY’S “SORROW IS NOT MY NAME”
Analysis: “Sorrow Is Not My Name”Before the first l of “Sorrow Is Not My Name, ” Gay tablish that his poem is nversatn wh Gwendolyn Brooks, one of the most important poets of the 20th century.
While Gay do not specify which of Brooks’s poems he is answerg, the fal l of “Sorrow Is Not My Name” adhere closely to the fal l of Brooks’s 1986 poem “To the Young Who Want to Die.