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The last line of the poem "We die soon" indicates the climax. |
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"We Real Cool" was the subject of a Youtube video by Alexander Faulk, in which the Honors English 10 room is broken inot and plastered all over the walls by the students. It is also a famous rallying cry for the students around the school. |
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Revision as of 19:33, 18 May 2007
We Real Cool is a poem written in 1959 by African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks and published in her 1960 book The Bean Eaters, her third collection of poetry.
It consists of four verses of two rhyming lines each. The last word in most lines is "we". The next line describes something that "we" do, such as play pool or drop out of school. Brooks has said that the "we"'s are meant to be said softly, as though the protagonists in the poem are questioning the validity of their existence.[1] The poem has been featured on broadsides, and is widely studied in literature classes and re-printed in literature textbooks.
The last line of the poem "We die soon" indicates the climax.
"We Real Cool" was the subject of a Youtube video by Alexander Faulk, in which the Honors English 10 room is broken inot and plastered all over the walls by the students. It is also a famous rallying cry for the students around the school.
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