Sunday, October 19, 2008
We Real Cool
This week for my free write I am choosing to write about Gwendoyln Brooks' "We Real Cool" and the specific tone of the speakers. Brooks' indicates that there a seven speakers hanging out a bar or pub called the Golden Shovel. The speakers seem to be in there early twenties and seem to be enjoying life. They have ditched school, stayed out late, consumed alcohol, and many other "bad" things. The speakers see themselves as cool. They believe that because they do all of these "bad" things they are cool. The last line takes a turn in attitude/tone though. It says, "We die soon". I don't think the speaker is using this to be negative, I think the speaker is trying to say that we should do the things we enjoy while were young because eventually we are all going to die. The speakers enjoy being bad and doing things that are not generally accepted by society. Brooks is justifying this by saying "we die soon" and she is urging people to go out and enjoy life.
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I agree, I think the speaker is trying to encourage the reader to go out and try new things. Why do you think she conveys her meaning of the poem through this method? Why did she talk about skipping school instead of working hard? Should we not go to school so we can have fun?
I think she wants us to do things we enjoy doing, not that school is not enjoyable, but most of the time it's not something we do for fun.
Well, I kind of took it different way. I think just this line'we die soon'. seems so normal and go well with the flow of the poem. So this could be symbol that they are so cool (real cool) that they take death like nothing. hmm...oh well, But i think you are also right. after i read your analysys few times i convienced.
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