We Real Cool
[2024-01-08 19:47:49]
Gwendolin Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas on June 7, 1917, and grew up in Chicago. She is the author of more than 20 poems including children 's house (The David Co., 1991), black people (David, 1987), leaving (Third World Press, 1981), boys near Johannesburg, The Pulitzer Prize obtained in poetry (David, 1986), Riot (Broadside Press, 1969), Mecca (Harper & Row, 1968), The Bean Eaters (Harper, 1960), Anne Allen (Harper, 1949) A street with bronze building (Harper & Brothers, 1945)
She also wrote many other books including Novels, Maud Martha (Harper, 1953), and the first part of the report: Autobiography (Broadside, 1972), and edited jump bad: New Chicago Anthology (Broadside) Press, 1971)
In 1968, she was appointed as a poet of Illinois. In 1985, she was the first black woman appointed as a poetry consultant to the Congress library, and this position is now known as the crown of poets. She also received American Art and Literature Awards, Frost Medal, National Foundation Award, Sherry Memorial Prize, and American Poets College and Guggenheim Foundation Scholarship. She lived in Chicago until his death on 3 December 2000.
I decided to read the poem "We Real Cool" written by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem is from the perspective of seven pool players, about the first life and the dying young people. At first, they seemed satisfied with the alternative lifestyle they outlined in the whole poem, but this provocative mood suddenly ended in the last line. It is a year. The title of this poem is "Pool player, seven golden shovels". This title shows that the poem is a group of seven pool players. "Golden shovel" can be the name of the place (such as a pub or a casino) or the name of the club where they swam. It seems to be symbolic, since they "buried my problem with gold shovels", but their problems can not be buried forever. It also urges the reader to read the last line of the poem. The shovel is used to dig a grave and the last line is "I will die soon".
The story of this poem is from the perspective of a group of young people who decided not to go to school. I think they are really cool. It is also written in dialects that look like "street children", and grammar is deliberate, trying to imitate a group of people. The next line is "We are late, we attack directly". This shows that the behavior of these children is primarily negative. Amazingly, as they are pool players, it is about talking about shooting and hitting the pool queue. But the other meaning of the word "strike" is whether it is current crime or future violence or violence and even these children may be at risk.