"Die Soon. We"

Gwendolyn Brook, a famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance played a major role where she helped expose the good in African Americans helping their growth into American mainstream. The Harlem Renaissance which spanned between the 1920s and 1930s was a time of great recognition of African American in politics, literature, music, culture and society growth. Gwendolyn Brook was a great African American woman in which she wrote a poem titled "We Real Cool". Brook's poem is very inspiring due to the fact that at the end of the poem, she has a firm point, the point being that you are given yourself the opportunity to succeed, don't throw it away and dig yourself a hole. She is trying to say that the felonious behavior will leave you dead, just like the path that these seven boys have chosen. She is trying to send a message to all the people who are being misled in the wrong direction, to give them an example of how life will turn out for themselves if they do not find the write path. It's inspiring because Gwendolyn Brook uses very concrete but short sentences. Each line is three syllables and the first and second line rhyme. The second and third rhyme, and so on. This poem proves how intellectual and how smart of a woman Gwendolyn Brook is. To get a message through like she did, it would take a paragraph or two, or even a whole book to explain. Brook did it in eight sentences, three syllables each. I aspire to become a poet like her. With such great talent and intellecutality she brings to society, a person like Brook cannot be ignored. She is inspring by relaying the message of not to waste your life a way like these boys, spending their whole days at "The Golden Shovel". Ironically enough, there is a symbolism behind a golden shovel. A common expression used is, that people are digging themselves a grave with a golden shovel. These boys are doing just that.