We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

Today more and more children are dying because of gun violence. I recently read a poem call "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem had a rhyme scheme, which sounded like bullets. Most poems have messages; the message of this poem was not just about people's actions, but their consequences. The title of the poem could be about more than friendship.

One thing that I notice when reading “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks was that the words rhymed. For example, We Real Cool and We Left School. The last words in each of the sentences rhymed, like cool and school. Gwendolyn Brooks uses repetition by repeating the same word to start each sentence off.

What caught my attention to this poem was the title. One thing that it could mean is how close someone is to another person. It could also relate to friendship or a relationship. We Real Cool is used and the first sentence in the poem.

Last, this poem had a message, which could be about how children or people act or their actions towards other people’s behavior. In the poem, the author says, “We Real Cool, We Left School, We Lurk Late, We Strike Strike”. Gwendolyn Brooks could be talking about how people are acting out by leaving school early and staying out late. At the end of the poem the author says, “We Jazz June. We Die Soon”. I think that those two lines could determine what their future is going to be like.

I’m glad while flipping through a textbook I discovered the poem We Real Cool. Like most poems, this poem had a moral that people can relate to. We Real Cool also had rhyme scheme. Most poems have an engaging title that makes you want to read it.