A poem’s writer is someone who writes from individual experiences, while a speaker is a fictional character created to express feelings and ideas throughout the poem. The writer creates the speaker to tell the readers the story. Sometimes, they can be real people in the writer’s life, historical events, or just fictional characters. The “I” may not be the author, but it could be the speaker in the story. The poet uses the speaker to act as a narrator to the poem and the reader might not know their names. The “We”, in “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks, are the seven pool players who are playing at a bar called the Golden Shovel. To me, it did seem strange that she used more than one character to be the speaker. The poem tells that the pool
