Gwendolyn Brooks 'Poem We Real Cool'

find Gwendolyn Brooks poem “We Real Cool” to be ironic. When you read the title, you think it’s going to be about a group of people who are cool, but once you go through each line, you realized it’s the opposite. The poem’s about “seven players” who drop out of school to live a carefree lifestyle, drinking alcohol and playing pool. The “players” have a nonchalant attitude towards life which is made pretty clear throughout the poem. The constant use of “We” makes me believe it’s a way of claiming their arrival and when she says “We Jazz June,” I think she is likening their behavior as to a summer mentality where it’s all about good times and no school. The end of the poem shows how their path leads them to an early death.