" We Real Cool " " We Real Cool " is about seven African - American high school dropouts who want everybody else to think they are cool. These teenagers explain how they stayed out late playing pool‚ sinning and drinking. Though they think they have everybody else fooled‚ they know themselves that the destructive behavior that they are taking part in will lead too their death. In " We Real Cool "‚ Gwendolyn Brooks uses denotation
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The poem We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks focuses on what activities the troubled group of seven teenagers partake in to make them appeal cool. The symbolism‚ imagery and tone shown in‚ “We Real Cool” shows how losing one’s identity to become part of a uncaring group in adolescence and social norms will lead one to an early visit to the grave. Gwendolyn uses symbolism throughout her poem to get the readers to perceive the poem in an abstract way. In the subtitle‚ the word “golden” symbolises daytime
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Name Brooke Guterriz Title of Poem/Poet: What We’re Made Of By Brooklyn and Bailey Title- Predict what this poem will be about before you read it. I think this song is about how these two girls are talking about how when they first meet their boyfriends and they think that is the best time of their lives. Sound Devices- Identify any rhythm or rhyme in the poem? There is not any rhyme in the song. There is rhythm in this song. Figurative Language- Identify any personification‚ metaphors
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Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet who created a literary movement and heavily influenced the tone for the Harlem Renaissance. In “If We Must Die”‚ he expresses how he wants to retaliate for prejudice and abuse of African-Americans within a english sonnet. McKay employs the english sonnet form to create a couplet that explains the purpose of this fight as the quatrains describe how they will fight. In the first quatrain McKay introduces the the issue; it is announced that they are being attacked.
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Redactive Poem The redactive poem I wrote about‚ is inspired by a page in the wonderful novel “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr. The main theme of it is that sometimes things or situations are not what they seem to appear. During the time of the war many presious artifacts‚ such as jewles‚ were stolen or loss forever. In this particular case‚ Marie and her father are constantly on the look out for a presious dimond called The Sea of Flames. The jewle was one of antique and elegance
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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2 9th Grade Poetry Book Report Blackberry picking theme analysis: In the poem Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney‚ he describes the action of picking blackberries during the summer. This poem has many themes infused within the poem. However some stand out more than others. greed‚ mortality‚ and disappointment. First he describes greed the over excessive amount of berries that they would pick. “We trekked and picked until cans ere full”. The kids where not just satisfied with a few blackberries
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Haiku The shinning hot sun Was right on us all day long We had sunburn skin Fish in a big bowl Swimming around and around Do not jump out please It is time for sun Swimming in the pool is fun Splash in the water Splish‚ splash rain is here Something to bring life to all It is needed soon. Limerick There was a boy named Mike‚ Who loved to go on long hikes. He could jog along‚ Singing a jolly song‚ With his big dog named Ike. There once was a
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He Had Such Quiet Eyes By: Bibsy Soenharjo 3.1 SYNOPSIS OF THE POEM The poem is about a woman who has been deceived to think that she was loved by a man with ‘quiet eyes’. She suffers for this and only learns on hindsight not to trust or give in to men who seek women only for pleasure. The poet gives an advice on being able to recognise what is true and what is not‚ when a person is truly friendly and when he is not. You may lose in the game of love and give your heart away‚ but knowing the truth
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Here is an anti bullying poem written by Jon Evans: Identity–The Bully They all try to look the same all try to give themselves a name pick on the boy who is all alone just because his identity is his own what has this world come to? all this wrong that people do just for the image they want to show down the evil path they seem to go The next person you go to hurt or try to make feel like dirt instead of trying to look cool feel for the guy you make look a fool A cool identity isn’t a need let
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