In "We Real Cool," Gwendolyn Brooks uses the poetic element of enjambment. Why do you think she does this, and how does it affect the meaning of the poem?
Enjambment plays a very big part in this poem. It changes the whole flow of the reader, it makes the way you read it much different from a “normal” poem because of it’s layout. This poem’s layout makes you read it much more fast and abrupt way, which could have great effect on it’s meaning. The enjambment in the poem makes you think the story is going much faster and also makes me think more about what is going on. This also makes me think much more about the difference in things that are happening and different things they are doing. Since the tempo I was reading the poem was very fast, I thought about the meaning as once you leave school in the beginning of the poem, everything in your life moves very fast after that until you die in the end of the poem. The enjambment in this poem makes it seem much more powerful and appealing because it is something you don’t see as often. This poem makes you really think about what the writer is trying to say because of the way it is written.
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