Gwendolyn Brooks’, “We Real Cool”, is a poem about seven pool players that are assumed to be friends. The poem talks about how the players are doing things, while they are living; such as, skipping school and staying out late, which also signifies that the players are still in their youth. There is a bond of loyalty within the players because there is a repetition of “We”, which signifies unity of a group of people, used throughout the poem. Brooks’ attitude towards the players is very encouraging
“We Real Cool” "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks have four stanzas, each of which is a two line couplet. Every word in the poem has only one syllable. This poem has a regular meter, with three beats and a pause. There is more to this poem that meets the human eye. “We Real Cool” have a compelling message behind it. Gwendolyn portrays the core of distraught teenagers living a carefree life. The teenagers in this poem are skipping school to be mischievous. Brooks is clearly portraying a message that
The Black Counter-Culture in "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks After reading the poem "We Real Cool," by Gwendolyn Brooks, most people think that Brooks is making an ironic statement. Most will read the poem and think that Brooks is being sarcastic by using simple language and in the end asserting that the seven pool players will die soon, or more broadly that all who speak in this manner will die soon. No doubt some people will see Brooks' statement "We/Left school" as the beginning of her
In Gwendolyn Brooks' We Real Cool, a scene is depicted of seven young adults playing pool during the time of day during which people of their age would typically be in school. The narrative voice of the poem is of one of these pool players, stating their usual activities as opposed to attending school, such as “lurking late” or “thinning gin,” ending with a fatalistic note that he, as well as the other pool players, will “die soon.” The statement of “dying soon,” as it's written by Brooks, can
Beauty and We Real Cool. These two devices are imagery and symbolism. The poem She Walks in Beauty by Lord Lord Byron (George Gordon) is about a girl that is very beautiful. Gordon compares her to many different beautiful things that makes her seem very majestic. An example is, “She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;” (Gordon, stanza 1 lines 1 and 2). The poem We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks is about a group of people that believe that they are cool. In the poem
Gwendolyn Brooks captures the reality of America’s youth with her poem, “We Real Cool.” Growing up in Chicago, Brooks was inspired to write “We Real Cool” while catching a glimpse of a group of teenagers playing pool during school hours (On “We Real Cool”). The poem portrays a group of young people dodging the responsibilities of life in order to do whatever is considered “cool” to them and their peers. The poem allows the audience to make their own judgements about the pool players, because Brooks
Death and We Real Cool "The sluggard’s craving will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work" (Proverbs 21:25). The Bible makes a very clear statement in this passage as to how being lazy can be the cause of one’s death. "We Real Cool" is about seven African-American high school dropouts who want everybody else to think that they are cool. These teenagers explain how they stay out late playing pool, fighting, sinning and drinking. Though they think they have everybody else fooled
The title of the poem, “We Real Cool” is the same as the first line. It allows us to realize that the speaker will be mimicking the voice of a group of seven young men in a pool hall. In the poem, Brook’s use of language and tone is extremely straightforward and precise. Her mocking tone allows the reader to envision beyond the words the author used to portray the seven pool players and the inevitable course of events leading to their dark and tragic futures, in her short poem concentrated on rhyme
exceeding boundaries and limits as well as sinning. These different acts can affect people in many different ways; they may be detrimental to relationships, families, and friends. ‘'The Storm'' by Kate Chopin, ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find ‘' and "We Real Cool'' are similar in that transgression impacts the characters in theses stories/poems in different negative ways and serve a different purpose. Adultery, lying, underage drinking, mistrust, and murder are common transgressions in these three pieces
Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" 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
“We Real Cool” poem proves you can give a lot of personality and insight to a group of characters in eight lines. With the lines “We real cool, We Left school (Lines 1-2)” it tells us that these kids left school to chase after their perception of cool. The poet reveals the fact that these boys are also uneducated, rebellious and arrogant. This poem will be the prime example of quality. Characterization is the mere act of giving a character a personality or exposition on their insight or reaction
their presence there as an attempt to look cool, as the pool hall was filled with gamblers and pool sharks. In addition, the fact that they skipped school was not working to their advantage. This sight intrigued her so much, that she decided to write a poem about it. Although the poem is constructed briefly of four couplets; it packs a powerful, morbid punch. This poem illustrates that too much carelessness can cause death earlier than expected. “We Real Cool,” she titled it. When examining the surface
Short Lives The poems “For A Lady I Know” by Countee Cullen and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks are two completely different poems. The poems themselves have different prosody, and message. The “For A Lady I Know” poem says “We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz june. We Die soon” (Brooks 639). In “We Real Cool” the poem says “She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and snores, While poor black cherubs rise at seven To
Poetry allows people to express ideas and get across messages in a unique way. Well-known known poet Gwendolyn Brooks wrote many poems during her lifetime. These poems include “We Real Cool” and “The Mother.” Alliteration and repetition are two examples of poetic devices used in these poems. As with many poets, the works of Gwendolyn were highly influenced by her life and the time she grew up in. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas on June 7, 1917. She died on December 3, 2000 at the
The poem “ We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrates many elements of poems including various figurative languages and theme to rely the strong message of the poem. The poems theme is enhanced by the usage of poems element of figurative language, by using musicality and identification. The usage of both elements helps the reader understand and imagine the actual setting, while reading the poem. The author of the poem relies a multiple combination of uses of figurative language including using
Brooks chose to use We to show as though the players, in the poem, are questioning the reason for their existence and are supposed to be spoken softly to emphasize the unknown in life. She also wrote those lines using We to suggest a moment of self-awareness about the choices being made by the pool players (Williams). The line, “We real cool. We left school. We lurk late” showed they felt cool and confident when leaving school and lurking late alone where
1. Life is full of choices, as both the speaker and the pool players demonstrate in Brooks' "We Real Cool." Write a narrative essay in which you tell the story of a good choice you made and its results in your life and the lives of others. Life is full of defining moments that can impact a life negatively or positively. The consequences to actions are never known in the beginning but always play out in the end. My life as well as everyone else’s can be summed up to a series of decisions, both
The Message of Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" "We Real Cool" is a short, yet powerful poem by Gwendolyn Brooks that sends a life learning message to its reader. The message Brooks is trying to send is that dropping out of school and roaming the streets is in fact not "cool" but in actuality a dead end street. Brooks conveys her message in an ironic manner, which is presented in the title of the poem. Before actually reading the 10 line poem the first thing that grabs the reader's attention
We Real Cool “We Real Cool” is a poem that was written by poet Gwendolyn Brooks in the year of 1959. This poem states that the black young people in the United States went through to make a clear definition of themselves and tried to seek their values in the late fifties and early sixties, young kids knowing they are different from the society, so they started their abandonment from a young age, they give up school because they know they cannot be accept as other white kids, they were caught in
In the “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brook, is a short poem that the author discusses the youth and the choices they are facing. In 1959 the poem was written and published in her 1960 book of The Bean Eater. Around the time where segregation took place and African American were involved. With many youths being involved questioned the society and it role. They were looked at different and gave up on a lot of important things that the future had in stored. With the poem “We Real Cool” seem to be about