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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

Brooks’s poems “We Real Cool” and “Mother” show that Gwendolyn Brooks writes about the world she lives in and what she experiences not in her own life, but in the lives of the people she sees around her. Moving around from school to school as a kid, Brooks was given a rounded perspective on the racial dynamics of the real world, which she shows in some of her work.Gwendolyn Brooks captures the life experiences and events of black lives. Brooks consistently focuses on the struggle of black people, usually

live in “white” neighborhoods, or live a decent, non-racially segregated life. Gwendolyn Brooks would have been painfully aware of these facts, considering the fact that she occupied spaces in both of these marginalized groups. Because of her agency as a prolific poet, she was able to be an active voice for the voiceless- namely, women and black youth. Through the poems “The mother” and “We Real Cool,” Brooks argues that one cannot understand another person’s truth objectively without foregoing their

takes so long for the culprits to be apprehended is attributed to the ability to carry on with a normal life. One even offered that in one instance, his victim actually thought he was joking when he kidnapped her to eventually murder her. In “Mr. Brooks,” Earl again is a very successful person. He is an ordinary, suit wearing, clean shaven, clean cut, successful Portland, Oregon businessman. I imagine that his killing addiction would shock even his closest, everyday coworkers. Hannibal Lecter is

Born in Topeka, Kansas 1917, Gwendolyn Brooks lived through many changes in American history, until her death in 2000. A Nobel-prize-winning poet, most of her work focused on portraits of the poor urban Black community. Two poems, following this theme, will be focused on in this essay and by the use of compare and contrast. Although it may seem that progression and follow the path of the majority (Irony) seems like the responsible way to live, in these two poems, it is the people who go out of the

the author’s reasoning behind their writing (or lack thereof) or how and why they wrong, and how this data might compare with other pieces within the same category. With this concept in mind, I’m going to be analyzing “The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks and determine its spot on the spectrum in terms of “Americanness”. To kick off analyzing the piece, I believe it’d be best for me to outline my terms of Americanness in a piece of writing before I elaborate. After careful consideration, I’ve decided

The poem "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks is a poem about a group of dropouts raised in the lower class of Chicago. They were a group of high school students who preferred the poolroom rather than school. This poem is written from the perspective of a couple of young men hanging out in a pool hall, and the speaker is trying to visualize what they are thinking. I believe these kids were born into poverty and were a simple reflection of the world around them. For poor African Americans that grow

“We Real Cool," by Gwendolyn Brooks is a fervent short poem that tells a story of teenage rebellion. This poem is a formal verse ballad which uses simple sentences that create a steady meter giving the poem a catchy jazz like quality. Although the poem is short, it packs a powerful message about youth. Gwendolyn Brooks centered her works predominately around the African American consciousness. During the 1960’s when the poem was written, many teens especially young African-American men felt misunderstood

Gwendolyn Brooks addressed the issues of poverty and living to the fullest in “The Bean Eaters” and “Sadie and Maud.” Both these poems have similar themes and some differences as well. This paper is about the contrasts between the two poems. Gwendolyn Brooks wrote both poems. Brooks often wrote about the plights of minorities and those in poverty. She lived in an apartment in Chicago and would write poems about those around her. "I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street," Ms. Brooks once said

Gwendolyn Brook, a distinguished African American poet, won the Midwestern Conference poetry award in 1943. Brook's work captured blacks lives in the streets of Chicago. For instance, her poem “We Real Cool”, is about black kids who dropped out of school and decided to hang at a Pool hall wasting their lives away. As quoted, “We real cool, we left school, we will jazz June, and we die soon (2:337). Brooks perspectives of her poem is the lives of the black kids struggling for a sense of identity