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Choose one of the poems that we have studied in the reader, and analyze the title. How does the title relate to the rest of the poem, and how does it create meaning? Provide examples from the poem to support your claim. 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. By: Gwendolyn Brooks The title We Real Cool is also the first line in the poem. We thought this poem is about teenagers who make bad choices such as drinking gin, not going to school, meeting up at bars, etc. They think they are being cool when they are really just killing themselves. This title sums up what the poem is trying to say, and it helps create imagery for the poem. For example: The lines, “ We real cool. We left school” is a great example of what the poem was trying to show, which is these teens were trying to act cool by doing things that were bad for them. Another example, “THE ...

Write about the concrete imagery that you noted in your journal/notebook during the trip to the Kusama Exhibit. Remember that concrete imagery appeals to one or more of your 5 senses.     When I went to the Kusama Exhibit with my group, we were only in each room for a couple minutes, but it was so worth it. We went in the first room for about 5 min. And it was extremely colorful. There was an audio playing of a poem the author was reading out loud. When the poem was being played, and I was surrounded by all the colorful tentacles, I imagined me being in my own dream and the poem was my conscious. In my dream I was underwater, and the tentacles were various creatures in the ocean. I was in the deepest part of the ocean, and I didn't recognize any of the creatures. My conscious had this eery, calm voice, telling me to just relax and follow the sway of the tentacles. The blue color scheme reflecting off the mirrors made me feel like following the conscious and the tentacles wou...

    Earlier this week, I went to the Amazon Exhibit at the HMNS to learn about all of the tribes that lived/live in the Amazon. The topic I will be focusing on is the rituals that the certain tribes had.     The Yanomamo Tribe ate banana soup with ashes as one of their yearly rituals. When someone died, they brought their body into the rainforest, covered it with leaves, and left them there for a while so the bugs could eat their flesh and tissue and everything except their bones. When all that was left was bones, the tribe burned the bones, collected the ashes, and mixed them into a banana soup that the entire tribe had to eat.     One of the most common foods for the Ye’kuana Tribe was manoic, or what we now call yuka. They are in the shape of sweet potatoes, but they are white on the inside. This was their best resource of carbohydrates. Some of them were poisonous back then, but they all looked the same. So how did they get rid of the poison? They sma...

A poem is a form of writing using conventional English in an artistic way to create metaphorical lines that tell a story or opinions. Prose use conventional English but not in an artistic way. People generally use prose to write essays. Prose are written in paragraph format as opposed to poetry, which is written in lines. Prose communicate facts, while poems are full of depth and trying to tell a story. Sometimes poetry is used to express feelings, prose is not. Although poetry and prose are different, they are both common forms of writing.