Poetry - Hanging Fire and We Real Cool

hardly a(prenominal) things are precisely cognise ab discover the speaker system in the verse form Hanging glow, write by Audre Lorde. In this verse, the speaker is a fourteen family old colored miss. She is sooner normal for a girl her age; she has a philander on a jejune boy and wears braces to square away her teeth. This girl has doubt, this is shown in her contention she does desire to do anything. standardised most teenagers she compares herself to her peers, question why she isnt on the math Team when grades were better than the young-begetting(prenominal) she envied. The teenager in the poem is feeling depressed and worthless. Teenagers go through these stages. For example she says forecast I excrete in the beginning graduation they will sing sad melodices but ultimately tell the truth about me (pg.719 Lorde) this shows how little she thinks of herself. She mentions dying repeatedly throughout the poem. She excessively mentions on page 719, and mommas in the bedroom with the doorstep closed (Lorde) leading the referee to believe she feels lonely, neglected, and go without notice. She feels she isnt pretty when she speaks of her betraying skin and ash-grey knees. The contributor can also imply that the teenager feels uneffective to take care of herself in the many statements that she might die soon, because of the lack of mothers attention. The poem Hanging Fire is quite sad and really realistic.\nOn another note, the poem We Real Cool, written by Gwendolyn Brooks, is short and sweet, but profuse of real world young related problems. The We in this poem, is septet pool players who have dropped out of school. They see this act as a imperturbable thing, give care big and bad boys. much specifically the we is meant to have the reader think about the asperity of the sevener pool players. The seven pool players are faint of who they really are, but they come int question it on a daily seat consciously; instead they continua lly state what makes them cool and how cool they are. The phrase Live fast, die young, and leave...