Consequences of Ignorance and Isolation Tenacious foolishness often provides tremendous detriment to the subject. In William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much with Us” and Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool‚” the foolish are lamented for their ignorant ways that ultimately cost them dearly. While the bases for their actions lie within the contexts of these poems‚ the mainspring‚ upon which the behaviors depicted in these poems are built‚ is a compulsion to isolate. Ignorance may be bliss‚ but it
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Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem "We Real Cool" identifies the struggle that Black American youths went through to define themselves in the late fifties and early sixties‚ in a society that was predominately trying to keep them oppressed. The poem portrays a group of young Black boys who hang out in a pool hall and conduct illegal activity instead of going to school with the rest of their peers. The boys are insecure about their role in society; they talk big so that they can hide behind their facade of being
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trivializing – is acceptable. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “the mother‚” she talks about the struggles of a woman who goes through abortion. While in Ariel Levy’s “Women and the Rise of Raunch
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In Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool” we are given a four stanza couplet that shows the daily activities of seven young men that dropped out of school. What I found really fitting in this poem was how the rhythm of the poem related well to the lifestyle of these young men. Each line comes at the reader quickly. Much like the rapid fire delivery of the lines in the poem‚ these characters also live life quickly both literally and metaphorical. The poem is spontaneous as are the characters and each
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There was a Shakespeare sonnet used in our text that I could have chosen to use today‚ but there is a poem that has stuck with me for quite a while now‚ since the first time I read it. The Pool Players‚ by Gwendolyn Brooks‚ although a rather short poem‚ had me drawn into it from the first line. I both read the poem and listened to the audio of the poem (having of course read it first). I will say that I read it in a different way than I listened to it. After
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Gwendolyn Brooks was an American author‚ poet and teacher. Her works reflected and were based off of struggles and celebrations of individuals in her community. One of her poems‚ We Real Cool‚ is quite short but has much substance. Although it was written in 1959‚ some can say that this poem can also be set in the Prohibition Era. The poem lines‚ “We real cool. We / Left school. We / Lurk late‚” the narrator is saying how cool they are and also shows some type of excitement are because they are in
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22‚ 2012 The poem “We Real Cool” was written in the 1960’s by the poet Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem illustrates the quintessence of seven troubled adolescents who will eventually succumb to the unfortunate likelihood that life can render a young Africa American male living the life in the fast lane during that era. “We Real Cool” is an interpretation of a group of young men Gwendolyn saw in a pool hall. She stated that “I wondered how they felt about themselves‚ and I decided
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Text Response 3 The poem “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks describes the frailty of life from the point of view of a few guys playing pool. They know that the choices they make will affect them in far greater ways in the future‚ yet they still wish to do what they do because life will end no matter what.. For some inconsequential reason the guys continue to “[l]urk late… [s]ing sin… [t]hin gin… [and j]azz June” (Brooks 3-7). They know that what they are doing is wrong‚ because of the fact that
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The poem We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks focuses on what activities the troubled group of seven teenagers partake in to make them appeal cool. The symbolism‚ imagery and tone shown in‚ “We Real Cool” shows how losing one’s identity to become part of a uncaring group in adolescence and social norms will lead one to an early visit to the grave. Gwendolyn uses symbolism throughout her poem to get the readers to perceive the poem in an abstract way. In the subtitle‚ the word “golden” symbolises daytime
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Joshua Smith Jane Focht-Hansen ENGL 2342-002 Sunday‚ March 02‚ 2014 New Criticism of “the mother” “the mother” is a challenging poem to analyze thanks to its highly conflicted narrator. Ostensibly‚ the narrator starts out purposing to tell her audience about the traumatic experience of having an abortion‚ while trying to avoid delving into the morality of her choice. However‚ the poem quickly goes past discussing just the emotional fallout‚ and the narrator begins to address herself
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