The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
After reading the poem , we real cool by Gwendolyn Brooks, though it was short I thought that it was very relatable to teenagers. We are at a stage in our lives where even though we are about to jump into adulthood, we are still young and naive. The lines we real cool, we left school for me shows that mindset that many people use to think that not going to school was cool and being a rebel was something that everyone wanted to be. Young adults a lot of the time like to stay out late and go out with friends doing things that they know they are not suppose to do but they do them anyways because they are young.
I believe that young people think that since we are going to die soon why not live your life the way that you want; everything is just going to go to waste so enjoy the moment that you are in. I feel as though the poem is showing us how short this time really is because of the length and I also think the style of this poem has a lot to do with the meaning as a whole. The way that it is broken up and divided, each stanza only having two lines and also ending with we leading into the next stanza shows that this time of our lives goes by different stages, each stanza showing a different stage until we come to the end which is the death of our youth.
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