Gwendolyn Brooks observes a group of youngsters in a pool hall in the poem “We Real Cool.” The poem is written in 4 stanzas and 8 lines‚ if you don’t count the subtitle: “The Pool Players./ Seven at The Golden Shovel.” Technically‚ every line rhymes in this poem‚ but every line (save for the last) also ends with the same word. Each line has rhyming words within‚ also: “Lurk late. We/ Strike straight. We/.” It is not the “typical” poem you might read because of this. All words in the poem are mono-syllabic
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My Papa’s Waltz Theodore Roethke was born to Otto and Helen Roethke on born on May 25‚ 1908. As a child his parents and his uncle owned and operated a greenhouse in Saginaw Michigan. Theodore spent a lot of time helping with his father working in the greenhouse. In 1923 his father died of cancer and shortly thereafter he turned to literature. His poem "My Papa’s Waltz" is a very emotionally stimulating poem. Roethke’s use of ethos in this poem helps establish his creditability. He writes
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In the poem “We Real Cool”‚ the speaker describes what she sees one day in a Pool Hall in the South Side of Chicago‚ the late 1950’s. There she saw a group of young boys‚ perhaps too young to be there. The speaker wonders what the group of kids thinks of themselves and how cool they think they are. The poet brings up the issue that in society the youth takes pride in their aimless behavior. The speaker also suggests that the boys are living to the fullest‚
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The poem "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks is a stream of the thoughts of poor inner city African-Americans who have adopted a hoodlum lifestyle. Though many can have different interpretations of this poem‚ it is fair to look at the life and career or the works and influences of Gwendolyn Brooks. The life and art of the black American poet‚ Gwendolyn Brooks‚ began on June 7‚ 1917 when she was born in Topeka‚ Kansas. She was the first child of Keziah Corine Wims and David Anderson Brooks. When
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Comparison Essay: The Passionate Shepherd‚ Song‚ My Papa ’s Waltz Love and Hate: Does True Love Conquer All? In recent discussions of love and hate‚ a controversial issue has been presented: can true love conquer all adversity? On one hand‚ some argue that love has its limitation. From this perspective‚ many will claim that familial love cannot conquer a violent home with a violent father. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that love can conquer any obstacle that appears in a relationship
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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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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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The Father-Son Connection One of the most powerful relationships someone ever forms is the connection that they have with their own father. “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke are both poems that brilliantly describe this powerful relationship between father and son. The feelings that the poets have toward the subject are found deep within the two poems often hidden behind how the character feels toward his own father. Even though these poems were published
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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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Analysis of We Real Cool ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Professor Mike Knowles November 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
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