Children and teenagers tend to give more importance on “groups” than older people. The two poems We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks and Deliberate by Amy Uyematsu relate about rebellion and how significant being in a group can be for teenagers. By comparing these two poems that have the same topic we will study how two authors can write differently about the same subject. We Real Cool and Deliberate have the same topic‚ kids for whom the most important thing is to be in groups. The two poems relate
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"We Real Cool"‚ by Gwendolyn Brooks can be regarded as one of the most influential poems for the black community in the 1960’s. Brooks displays intense passion within the poem. If the reader does not feel the black struggle within the poem‚ they should read it again. Brooks wrote this poem at the peak of the black oppression in America. Blacks in America were not giving voting rights‚ and basically were second class citizens. Many blacks felt as though school could not help them in a system that
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said her last so-long Her girls struck out from home. (Sadie left as heritage Her fine-toothed comb.) Maud‚ who went to college‚ Is a thin brown mouse. She is living all alone In this old house. The poem Sadie and Maud by the phenomenal poet Gwendolyn Brooks was written in the forties when ideals and expectations for women were more
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Both Gwendolyn Brooks’ “the mother” and Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” portray a sense of responsibility and coming to terms with the past‚ but in different situations and with different consequences. Brooks’ poem examines the complicated feelings of having numerous abortions‚ despite the pain and guilt‚ but at the same time embraces what has happened. Dickinson’s poem reflects on the acceptance of death and acknowledging that it’ll come. Despite these differences‚ the onus
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“A Sunset of the City” Gwendolyn Brooks‚ “A Sunset of the City” is presents a depressing and mournful viewpoint of growing old. The poem begins as the narrator describes her appearance‚ as she is no longer viewed as beautiful or lovable. She goes on to describe that she is not in denial of her old age‚ though she is unhappy about it. Toward the end of the poem‚ the narrator discusses that she no longer feels needed‚ and contemplates whether to fade away slowly and miserably or to die. Old age is
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Death in “We Real Cool” In Gwendolyn Brooks poem “We Real Cool” Seven African-American high school dropouts want everyone to admire them. These teenagers explain how they stay out late playing pool‚ fighting‚ sinning and drinking. Though they believe they have everybody else fooled‚ they know themselves that the destructive behavior they are taking part in will lead to their death. “The sluggard’s carving will be the death of him‚ because his hands refuse to work” (Proverbs 21:25) The Bible makes
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We Real Cool By: Gwendolyn Brooks The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. Shall I compare thee to a summers day? By: William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
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We Real Cool English 125 We Real Cool In this paper the topic that will be written about is the poem entitled “We Real Cool”. This poem was written in 1960 by a woman named Gwendolyn Brooks. In this paper three topics have been selected so that this poem will be able to be analyzed. With each element‚ it will de discussed how those elements affected and interested me while reading. The three elements that have been written about are form‚ language‚ and content. Form‚ in poetry‚ can be
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many concerning issues in the postwar era. The poets and short story writers voiced the views and thoughts in this way. Gwendolyn Brooks and James Brooks are to examples of just that. Brooks was one to give the reader a story‚ however‚ they needed to dig into her life to discover the true meaning. James Brooks did the same through his short stories. In 1950‚ Gwendolyn Brooks‚ who lived most of her life in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in part because of her
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