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Prepare: Prior to beginning your initial post, read the poems “We Real Cool” and “My Papa’s Waltz” in your textbook. You are also required to listen to “We Real Cool” and “My Papa’s Waltz” before completing this discussion. These clips demonstrate the importance of performance, rhythm, and musicality in the poetic form.
  Reflect: Poetry is a literary form that can offer readers a different experience based on whether the poem is read silently, read aloud, or simply listened to when read by someone else. For example, you might hear a certain rhythm or change of pace that you might not catch when simply reading the poem silently to yourself. For this week’s discussion, you read and listened to poetry. If you didn’t the first time, read and listen with careful eyes and ears so you can respond thoughtfully to the two parts of the discussion this week.
  Write: Part One – Answer the following questions about one of the poems based on your reading of them:

  • What is the theme of the poem? How do you know this is the theme?
  • What poetic devices (e.g., rhythm, figurative language, etc.) are used in the poem? Offer at least two examples.
  • How do these poetic devices contribute to the development of the poem’s message?
  • Support your ideas with textual details and analyses. 

Part Two – Describe your listening experience of the same poem you wrote about above. Respond to at least two of the following questions:

  • How did hearing the poem recited aloud compare to a silent reading of it?
  • Did the performance highlight certain words or phrases that were not as apparent in a silent reading?
  • Did the pace change and, if so, how did it change your understanding of the poem?
  • Did words have different connotations and, if so, what kind(s) of connotation did you associate with the poem?
  • Do you think reading poetry aloud is a worthwhile endeavor when analyzing it? Why, or why not?

We Real Cool

Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917 – 2000

                   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.

My Papa’s Waltz

BY THEODORE ROETHKE

The whiskey on your breath 

Could make a small boy dizzy; 

But I hung on like death: 

Such waltzing was not easy. 

We romped until the pans 

Slid from the kitchen shelf; 

My mother’s countenance 

Could not unfrown itself. 

The hand that held my wrist 

Was battered on one knuckle; 

At every step you missed 

My right ear scraped a buckle. 

You beat time on my head 

With a palm caked hard by dirt, 

Then waltzed me off to bed 

Still clinging to your shirt.

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