We Real Cool Analysis
Prof. Abdullah-Matta
ENG 225
02/24
The Magic of Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks remains one of the most profound writers of literary works whose writings continue to illuminate issues of life up to date. She talked about various issues that touched on every single group in the society. Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who has been the most responsive to changes in the black community. Brooks was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, and the first African-American to be inducted into the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Her works were based on the fundamental issues of life that surrounded the wellbeing of the blacks and the things they dealt with in their respective environments. Through her …show more content…
The poem begins “we real cool”, which happens to be the title. The statement “we real cool” is fairly self-explanatory. The pool players are conveying their feeling that they are in fact “real cool”. The first statement to follow “we real cool” is “we left school”. The poem accentuates each individual statement by separating the word “we” from the rest of the statement by a line break. “We left school”, this statement is very simple, but it also explains a lot about the pool players. The fact that they left school either suggests that they are skipping out and spending their time at a pool hall, or they have completely dropped out of school. In either way this statement suggests that they are young and most likely troubled, and find themselves in the slow lane to a dead …show more content…
This poem gives another dimension concerning the society and the wellbeing of the society. The essence of this poem is that wars exist within the society. However, the causes of the war should be carefully examined to understand the basis of such wars. In the poem, the narrator has a commanding tone that shows some form of dictatorship within the society. What is to be noted is that equal rights for all should be a priority for the stakeholders in the society. From the poem, it is notable that strafes in the society are only, but as a result of inequalities. The black community had a history of deprivation. They were conflicted to the extent that getting the basic necessities was a major challenge. Inequalities characterized the Negro society and this fueled conflicts as people searched for the limited opportunities that existed. Gwendolyn Brooks illuminates the black society and what sometimes caused tensions in the black dominated
ENG 225
02/24
The Magic of Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks remains one of the most profound writers of literary works whose writings continue to illuminate issues of life up to date. She talked about various issues that touched on every single group in the society. Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who has been the most responsive to changes in the black community. Brooks was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, and the first African-American to be inducted into the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Her works were based on the fundamental issues of life that surrounded the wellbeing of the blacks and the things they dealt with in their respective environments. Through her …show more content…
The poem begins “we real cool”, which happens to be the title. The statement “we real cool” is fairly self-explanatory. The pool players are conveying their feeling that they are in fact “real cool”. The first statement to follow “we real cool” is “we left school”. The poem accentuates each individual statement by separating the word “we” from the rest of the statement by a line break. “We left school”, this statement is very simple, but it also explains a lot about the pool players. The fact that they left school either suggests that they are skipping out and spending their time at a pool hall, or they have completely dropped out of school. In either way this statement suggests that they are young and most likely troubled, and find themselves in the slow lane to a dead …show more content…
This poem gives another dimension concerning the society and the wellbeing of the society. The essence of this poem is that wars exist within the society. However, the causes of the war should be carefully examined to understand the basis of such wars. In the poem, the narrator has a commanding tone that shows some form of dictatorship within the society. What is to be noted is that equal rights for all should be a priority for the stakeholders in the society. From the poem, it is notable that strafes in the society are only, but as a result of inequalities. The black community had a history of deprivation. They were conflicted to the extent that getting the basic necessities was a major challenge. Inequalities characterized the Negro society and this fueled conflicts as people searched for the limited opportunities that existed. Gwendolyn Brooks illuminates the black society and what sometimes caused tensions in the black dominated