We Real Cool Poem Analysis

American poet and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Gwendolyn Brooks, National Book Award Winner, Ai Ogawa, and Emmy Award Winning Poet, Kwame Dawes are all essential components of the time of which they wrote. Writer Gwendolyn Brooks is a unique poet who is publishing poems that withstands the Civil Rights Movement. The poem “We Real Cool”, written by Gwendolyn, talks about seven young pool players whom left school to live the fast life and die young trying. Ai Ogawa develops poems with substantial realization of dark events that often use violence. The poem “The Kid”, written by Ai Ogawa is about young boy whom acts out his fantasy in a violent manner towards his family. Kwame Dawes is more of a spiritual and emotional writer. His poem “Tornado Child”, speaks on a young woman facing everyday trials and tribulations in life itself. “We Real Cool”, “The …show more content…
The young lady in the “Tornado Child”, believes that her moment of feeling young will kill all her problems. Lines twenty-four through twenty-six says, “When the spirit takes my head, I hurtle into the vacuum of white sheets billowing and paint a swirl of color, streaked with my many songs.” In “We Real Cool” the young teens did not think on how this would affect their futures. (secondary) The young boy in “The Kid”, failed at getting attention from his parents, destroyed his family, and believed that it was okay. He felt confident in what he did. In lines twenty-six to thirty-two says, “In the house, I put on the old man’s best suit and his patent leather shoes. I pack my mother’s satin nightgown and my sister’s doll in the suitcase. Then I go outside and cross the fields to the highway. I’m fourteen. I’m a wind from nowhere. I can break your heart.” Tells how he is prideful in his action and by him leaving explains that he believes he will get away with such actions. Exemplifying lack of judgement in