"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks.
This poem is about someone who is too cool for school and does crazy things after leaving before they die. There is enjambment used consistently through the entire poem. The enjambment doesn't only make the poem look appealing because it is so different, it also changes the speed you read the poem. When I read the poem the pace I was reading slowly sped up. For me, the enjambment changed the meaning of the poem because I was reading it as after you leave school to begin your life things speed up really quickly and then you die at the end of it all. I think the author of this poem used enjambment for two reasons. Number 1 being it makes the poem really stand out because it is not very common to see enjambment used as much as she did. Number 2 it makes you think harder about the poem. Since the poem is very short it could be easy to just read and forget about it, but because there was so much enjambment you start thinking why would she do that.
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