We Real Cool Poem Analysis

While in the poem “We Real Cool” the syntaxes are used in a different way than in “Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt”. I believe the breaks are more evident and have a bigger impact on how the story is told than the syntaxes in the other poem. The breaks impact the way the reader reads the poem and the pauses let you stop and think about each stanza. I believe that the presence of the syntaxes in each line in the poem put an emphasis on what they do to make them believe that they are “cool”. The breaks demonstrate that each specific thing that this group does to consider themselves cool is equally impactful, “We real cool. We / Left school” (1-2). The syntaxes also add to the structure of the poem and allow it to have that song type