Sunday, May 15, 2011

We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

This poem sounds like the writer is trying to show the world what life really is about. Some people live life thinking only certain things are possible and nothing could ever go wrong. In this poem the author shows its readers that we live to die basically. There is a lot of rhythm and word play in this poem. I do see an image and that image is of acceptance. I really do like the poem because the author sounds very confident considering the word play she uses. I like the fact that she chose not to rhyme every line but every other line. What I didn’t understand in this poem was the part where she said

 “sing sin, we thin gin”

It made absolutely no sense to me at all. After rereading it over and over, I then came to the realization that it probably meant we always sin but act like we don’t. That’s what I felt the quote meant but overall it was a pretty decent poem even though it was so short.