Poetry Analysis: "We Real Cool"

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Poetry Analysis: “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks In this poem I believe Gwendolyn Brooks begins talking from a teenagers point of view and ends it from an adults point of view. The voice grew older when the last line hit. The very first line, “We real cool,” to me came from a teenager, he then continued with the “cool” things that they did. But when I read the last line, “We.. Die soon.” I thought of it as an adult looking back at all the stupid things he and his buddies did, like almost realizing it all after something that he did almost brought death to him. Being “cool” was not worth all the trouble they got into and the near death experience, or maybe even causing a dear friend his life. He kept saying “We”. Letting me know he did not act alone at all. He might have been peer pressured into doing some of the crazy things he got into. As a teenager it is so easy to get persuaded into doing things that are not correct. In the end it seemed liked he realized doing all the “cool” things was not worth all the hurt. This could also very well be considered the theme of the poem. Each line ended with “We”, never ending always continuing with the crazy things they did. Never stopping to think what will happen, what is the outcome of this action, what the consequences will be in the end. These lines could be considered run-on lines in my opinion. Each line ended with “We” (Brooks, 500), showing us how it did not end in punctuation, but indeed carried on grammatically to the next line. In the end my interpretation of this poem started out with a teenager and ended with a much wiser

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