We Real Cool a Poem by Gwendoly Brooks
by Barry Wright
Essay: We Real Cool a Poem by Gwendoly Brooks
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We Real Cool
“We Real Cool” is a poem that was written by poet Gwendolyn Brooks in the year of 1959. This poem states that
the black young people in the United States went through to make a clear definition of themselves and tried to
seek their values in the late fifties and early sixties, young kids knowing they are different from the society, so they
started their abandonment from a young age, they give up school because they know they cannot be accept as
other white kids, they were caught in things as rape, murder and robbery because that's the only thing the now to
express their anger. They do everything that seems fun to them then die young because they have no hope left for
them. These African American young ones are living in the society that was ruled as well as predominated trying
to make them stay in the relatively oppressed state.
This poem presents a picture showing that a group of black young boys who were hanging out in the hall of pool
and do a lot of illegal activities rather than going to study at school just like other students with the same age as
them. These black young boys are always worried about their role in the society and cannot get the according
secure feeling although they are still in the young ages. They are so little that many of them have no clear idea
about the society and their future as the blacks. They are always in the confused and chaos states so as they feel
lost to some extent. These black young boys are talking big in order to cover the internal instability. (Cummings,
2005) They would like to show to other people that they are the naughty and tough guys instead of trying to seek
some help. They hold the point of view that they have been abandoned by the society and they have no...