Death in “We Real Cool” In Gwendolyn Brooks poem “We Real Cool” Seven African-American high school dropouts want everyone to admire them. These teenagers explain how they stay out late playing pool‚ fighting‚ sinning and drinking. Though they believe they have everybody else fooled‚ they know themselves that the destructive behavior they are taking part in will lead to their death. “The sluggard’s carving will be the death of him‚ because his hands refuse to work” (Proverbs 21:25) The Bible makes
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Through the use of two different rhetorical devices I was able to find the importance of the poem‚ and it helped me understand the deeper meaning of the poem. The theme is people who choose to live their lives in the streets‚ instead of getting an education will eventually find themselves dead. Through the use of alliteration words such as: ’lurk late’ ’strike straight’ ‘sing sin’ and ‘jazz June’ show us how the kids spend their time while they were not in school. Lines 3-6 explain how they would
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In Theodore Roethke’s poem entitled “My Papa’s Waltz” Roethke sets the scene with a young child with his or her father dancing around the house. In the poem there were words used such as romped and waltzed. Romped may have been used to describe them as to dancing wildly and having fun. While on the other hand waltzed is a bit more graceful and smooth. While I read this poem I took away that the son or daughter was enjoying time with their dad. There are certain lines in the poem that can become
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POETIC DEVICES IN MY PAPA’S WALTZ 1. Rhyme Scheme- a repeated pattern of rhymed words at the end of the line This poem has a simple ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH rhyme scheme‚ meaning that every other line within a stanza rhymes. Example: The whiskey on your breath (A) Could make a small boy dizzy; (B) But I hung on like death: (A) Such waltzing was not easy. (B) The lines with corresponding letters rhyme. The B rhyme in this stanza is an example of a slant rhyme – "dizzy"
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warm moment between a father and his son‚ or is something more sinister happening behind the curtains? “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke is‚ at first glance‚ a poem about a tender father dancing with his son. However‚ using literary elements such as symbols‚ allusion‚ imagery‚ metaphor‚ tone‚ rhyme‚ and simile‚ it is revealed that the relationship between them is more complex and darker than we imagine. Despite the seemingly playful moment‚ the poem portrays the theme of violence and abuse. I will
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As the sentence suggests the poem “We real cool” is about teenagers who identify themselves as rebels. On the first read‚ the poem seems to be defiant statements made by black Americans. It has an element of bravery that seems defensible and almost desirable. There is a pride in the tone. Pride in rebelling the conventional ways of the society and disobeying several legal structures. They escape the drudgery and dullness of being in school thus opening many possibilities. There is however a change
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My Papa ’s Waltz" In Theodor Roethke ’s "My Papa ’s waltz" the reader finds a horrid experiance‚ the beating of a child by his father‚ which is told in a way of a romantic and beutifull dance - the waltz. The feeling one get from reading this poem is that the narrator‚ at least at the time in which the poem is written‚ does not look at this experience as something bad. He tries to beutify the experience by making it a waltz. He also‚ by means of images and rythem‚ shows the conflict between
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?We Real Cool? Poetry Essay Assignment 5. Analyze a poem using a structure that will include a paraphrase of the poem‚ interpretation of the poem‚ and the theme of the poem. Professor 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. (Brooks 782) ?We Real Cool? was written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1960. This poem is short but powerful. ?It gives the reader an idea about how
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Quynh Nguyen Lynn Hovde English 101 February 17th‚ 2010 The Memory of the Waltz After reading the poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke (807)‚ I realized that there are many different opinions about this poem. Some people think that this poem is about parental abuse‚ the other also think that it is about the happy memory of the relationship between father and son. In my point of view‚ the speaker in the poem is expressing his joyful time when he’s dancing with his father. The whole poem
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"We Real Cool"‚ by Gwendolyn Brooks can be regarded as one of the most influential poems for the black community in the 1960’s. Brooks displays intense passion within the poem. If the reader does not feel the black struggle within the poem‚ they should read it again. Brooks wrote this poem at the peak of the black oppression in America. Blacks in America were not giving voting rights‚ and basically were second class citizens. Many blacks felt as though school could not help them in a system that
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