Assignment Task:
Brooks, We Real Cool
The Pool Players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
Questions:
Q1. Respond to the poem. What is your impression of it? What strikes you about it? What do you find confusing or unclear?
Q2. What is happening in the poem? What is the location? Who are the characters? How would you summarize what takes place?
Q3. How do the pool players seem to feel about the life they are living? What features of the poem - word choice, line breaks, rhythm, layout - communicate their attitude?