In
class, after reading “We Real Cool”, we watched a video on the poem which
featured the author, Gwendolyn Brooks. The poem is really short and it rhymes.
It’s about rebellious kids, being real cool, leaving school, lurking late, and
singing sin. That’s basically the poem right there. But I enjoyed being able to
hear the audio of the author reading it. In the video she talks about how she
came to write it. It was one day while passing by the pool hall and wondering
how they felt about themselves. There is a part in her poem,” Jazz June”, which
turned out to be controversial. The word Jazz was said to be sexual. Though
that wasn't her intention, she went with it and didn't object others
assumptions. It was pretty funny to hear that with humor, but she was more
thinking of the music, jazz. Overall, it was a nice, cool, and short little
poem.
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