The italicized introduction to the poem is "The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel." It is especially symbolic. Labeling them as Pool Players takes away from their individuality as people. The group is attached to the pool hall and therefore to the negative stigma of pool halls. The Golden Shovel is also no run of the mill shovel, and the seven pool players, who we by now have realized are on a quick path to an early destruction, hang out there and are just waiting to bury themselves. How ironic is the symbolism of being real cool and digging your own grave with a big golden shovel The pool hall, like the shovel, is the means by which the young players will bury themselves.
With only a limited number of words in the poem Brooks makes brilliant use of language. She does an excellent job of having the poem flow off of the tongue effortlessly and makes the poem very simple to read. The structure of the lines of the poem repeatedly begins with the action (predicate) of the sentence and
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We Real Cool
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ampquotWe Real coolampquot
ampquotWe Real coolampquot. Response on amp39amp39We Real Coolamp39amp39 amp39We Real Coolamp39amp39 is a poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1959. This ... (2551
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Literary Techniques In We Real Cool
... CoolGwendolyn Brooks uses literary techniques such as dialect, ironic point of view, and syntax to accentuate the theme and persona in We Real Cool. The ... (2521
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The Road Not Taken
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The Real Bussiness Cycle
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petition to express the irony of a "cool" lifestyle leading to an early grave.
The musical devices are peppered throughout the poem and serve to reinforce the theme. With the effective use or rhyme Brooks gives the poem an aspect of consistency that makes it more understandable and readable. Rhyme is widespread all through the poem beginning with lines 1 - 2 where the speaker says "We Real Cool. WeLeft School." Similar rhyme is used between each pair of linking phrases to aid in the repetitive nature of the poem. Such rhyme results in an even more effectual echo of meaning in the poem.
The italicized introduction to the poem is "The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel." It is especially symbolic. Labeling them as Pool Players takes away from their individuality as people. The group is attached to the pool hall and therefore to the negative stigma of pool halls. The Golden Shovel is also no run of the mill shovel, and the seven pool players, who we by now have realized are on a quick path to an early destruction, hang out there and are just waiting to bury them
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