week 8

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 “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks

This is about people who think they are real cool. They think they are awesome because they quit school, stay up late, do things they are not suppose to do, and all they do is smile about it and think there is nothing  wrong with what they are doing. Then, they do something that makes them realize that what they are doing is not really that cool, it is actually pretty stupid.

“We Old Dudes” by Joan Murray

This poem is about a group of people who do pretty much everything together. They like to play golf every chance they get and go to the mall. They pretty much spend every waking moment together.

“Marks” by Linda Pastan

This poem is about a wife and mother who thinks her work is not welcome anymore. Her husband says her cooking is amazing but the sex is not that great. Her son just thinks she is like every other mom, nothing is really different. Her daughter just sees her as yes, you are an okay mother or no, you are a horrible mother. The mother cannot take it anymore and wants to leave.    

“Root Cellar” by Theodore Roethke

This poem is really bah! It talks about a cellar. It talks about what is in a cellar. It describes what it looks like and what it smells like. It tells you about what you will most likely find in a cellar from all the old stuff to the new. It tells all about the stuff that lives and grows in there. Maybe, no one has been in that cellar in a very long time since it says “Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.” Everything has a meaning in that place. Everything has a place and it is in its place.

“Rearview Mirror” by Robert Morgan

This poem talks about how time passes us by. One second we are thinking about what we are going to do with the rest of our lives and the next second ten years have passed us by. We have accomplished so much but we also still have so much ahead of us. As soon as we make a plan for our future it is already in the past and it is time to think about the future again. Some people just live day to day and do not think about their future or think about their past, even though, it shapes you as a person and makes you who you are. Time fly’s by and you only have yourself to look at.