We Real Cool

In class we were assigned groups today and in each group we had to pick a poem to read aloud and explain to the class. My groups poem was We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks. My group all agreed on that the poem was about high schooler or an older crowd that were cool, went to school, hung out late,had sex and soon die. Then Sweeney showed us a video, which was Gwendolyn Brook actualy talking about how the poem was banned,how it was about her seeing kids in the pool hall and about how "we jazz june" had nothing to do with having sex. I thought the poem was pretty straight forward and I like the tone of the poem.