Poetry - Hanging Fire and We Real Cool

hardly a(prenominal) things are precisely know close to the vocaliser in the poesy Hanging go up, pen by Audre Lorde. In this poem, the speaker is a fourteen twelvemonth old colored girlfriend. She is kinda normal for a girl her age; she has a reproof on a puerile boy and wears braces to enlighten her teeth. This girl has doubt, this is shown in her avowal she does desire to do anything. want most teenagers she compares herself to her peers, question wherefore she isnt on the maths Team when grades were better than the potent she envied. The teenager in the poem is feeling depressed and worthless. Teenagers go through these stages. For example she says call up I take apart onwards graduation they will lecture sad melo functions but in conclusion tell the truth ab forbidden me (pg.719 Lorde) this shows how little she thinks of herself. She mentions dying repeatedly throughout the poem. She besides mentions on page 719, and mommas in the bedroom with the inlet c losed (Lorde) leading the commentator to believe she feels lonely, neglected, and go without notice. She feels she isnt pretty when she speaks of her betraying skin and neutral knees. The lector can also imply that the teenager feels otiose 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 precise realistic.\nOn another note, the poem We Real Cool, written by Gwendolyn Brooks, is short and sweet, but dependable of real world youth related problems. The We in this poem, is septette pool players who have dropped out of school. They see this act as a composed thing, like big and bad boys. more(prenominal) specifically the we is meant to have the reader think about the harshness of the vii pool players. The seven pool players are incertain of who they really are, but they feignt question it on a daily fundament consciously; instead they continually state what makes them cool and how cool they are. The phrase Live fast, die young, and leave...