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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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 often comes with consequences. The rebellious youths of “We Real Cool” dropped out of school‚ drank hard liquor‚ walked the streets late at night‚ and got into fights; the poem alludes
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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 a pool hall when they should be in school getting an education and they are failing to live up to their potential. The poem starts in a pool hall‚
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Comparison of two love poems ‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.’ is a poem written in the 19th century by a poet named Elizabeth Barret Brown. Assuming that this love sonnet was written from the poets point of view this poem is about how a lady loves her lover. The title suggests that this poet will list how she loves a certain person and in how many different ways and the poem does exactly that‚ Elizabeth also compares her love to things that it is not possible to live without. The language
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The first of the two poems I have chosen to compare and contrast is Morning Song By Silvia Path‚ this poem seems focused on the experience of child birth and the powerful emotions that follow‚ and is by no means however a generalized and optimistic account of child birth. The second poem I have chosen to focus on is There Be None Of Beauty’s Daughters by Lord Byron and seemingly depicts a strong sense of love and bondage between the Byron and the person he is writing about‚ however it is unclear
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The two poems‚ Plug In‚ Turn On‚ Look Out and Portrait of a Machine both talks about machines and they are related to our everyday lives. There are quite a few differences and similarities in the two poems‚ Plug In‚ Turn On‚ Look Out and Portrait of a Machine. To start off with‚ the poem Plug In‚ Turn On‚ Look Out is warning everyone about how the machines would take over the world and teaching all of us what we should do usually to prevent them taking over and hurting us. The poem picks out all
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“We Real Cool: Stay in School” It was a Wednesday on the final week of senior year and the only thing happening in my classes was the exchanging of yearbooks. I had already gotten signatures from all of my closest friends‚ except one who hadn’t been at school the past two days; his name was Frank Gerrity. He was a childhood friend who was always known for being a trouble maker‚ so it wasn’t unusual for him to ditch. After not having seen him in any of the classes we had together‚ I decided to pay
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The Poems of the Harlem Renaissance Colette 106977 English 104 College of New Caledonia – Quesnel Campus Danielle Sarandon 7 February 2014 The Harlem Renaissance was the revival for African Americans in providing capability of expression through literature‚ music‚ art and poetry. This period in the 1920’s was the engine that drove black creativity to display the interpretations of their culture and to supply hope for a true identity. Many works that came from
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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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elongate or shorten their lives. Brooks’ “ We Real Cool ” describes seven friends and the results their choices induce after leaving school and escaping the norms that show liberation. The poem exudes a jazzy rhythm and mood which accentuates the players and scene. In “ We Real Cool” the author is able to show‚ the theme of pride and the consequences of the choices people make with his utilization of irony and repetition. The repetition and utilization of “ We” shows the theme of pride by relating
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