ENGL 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gwendolyn Brooks, Carpe Diem, Terrance Hayes
1 May 2019
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Poem: we real cool by gwendolyn brooks. We at the end of every line, rhyming. Wrote about people and neighborhoods of chicago. Die soon is final, only line not ending with we . The word die does not rhyme with anything. Structure of poem mimics content of it. We is a chorus, saying it in unison. Irony with the usage of the word cool . First line is four words, then they all have three words until the last, which has. We die soon because they are doing those cool (uncool) things. Only 24 words, but delivers a world message. Golden shovel: take a line from someone else"s poem, the words, as they appear, become the last words of each line of the new poem. Does not need to reply to author. Poem: the golden shovel by terrance hayes. The form is in conversation with cento (100 lines of someone else"s poem) Last line on first page is ironic.
