Hello to all students of Ms. Abrakasa's ENG2D7-C course! As promised, I have created this blog for you so that you might post one (or two) of your favourite poems here. Be sure to include the title of the poem and the author in your post. I would encourage you to read the poems that your classmates have posted and leave comments that might, eventually, turn into discussions about the poems posted. Since we will all be using the same user name it is important to leave your first and last name at the end of any comments that you leave for your classmates. I also encourage you to post your own, original poetry here as the comments that you might receive should prove to be an invaluable resource for the revision and inclusion of poems in your poetry anthology which is due on November 14th. Without further ado here is a poem to get everyone started:
We Real Cool
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.
-Gwendolyn Brooks
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3 comments:
I think it's really interesting how her line breaks put less emphasis on "We" and more emphasis on the verbs. It makes a stronger impact.
- Amal
I love the way the thought never really breaks, even though the poem is divided into two line stanzas.
-Angelina
when i read the line "we real cool", i was thinking, "is this for real?" because it was real simple.
when i read "we/die soon" i was thinking "i feel some serious undertones here."
and when i read the poets name i was like "OMG really?"
I never really read any of Brooke's poetry but from her biography i could start to understand what she was talking about.
and the repetition of the "we" in most poems repetition is used for emphasis, here its used for the opposite, by the way its positioned at the end of the sentence and maybe other reasons
-Ielaf :)
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