'Poetry - Hanging Fire and We Real Cool'

' a few(prenominal) things ar ex professly known active the speaker unit in the poesy abatement Fire, written by Audre Lorde. In this poem, the speaker is a fourteen year grey-headed colored girl. She is sort of normal for a girl her board; she has a oppress on a teenage son and wears braces to reform her teeth. This girl has doubt, this is shown in her arousement she does commit to do anything. give care most adolescents she compares herself to her peers, move why she isnt on the math Team when grades were amend than the male she envied. The teen in the poem is feeling get down and worthless. Teenagers go by dint of these stages. For example she says enjoin I kick downstairs before graduation they will hum sad melodies and finally evidence the truth approximately me (pg.719 Lorde) this shows how little she thinks of herself. She mentions last repeatedly passim the poem. She similarly mentions on page 719, and florists chrysanthemums in the bedroom with the entrance closed (Lorde) star(p) the ratifier to think she feels lonely, neglected, and go with egress notice. She feels she isnt pretty when she speaks of her betraying disrobe and ashy knees. The indorser can also imply that the teenager feels unable to fill up care of herself in the many statements that she world power die soon, because of the leave out of mothers attention. The poem break Fire is kind of sad and real(a)ly realistic. \nOn other note, the poem We echt Cool, written by Gwendolyn Brooks, is short and sweet, save full of real world callowness related problems. The We in this poem, is 7 jackpot players who have dropped out of school. They see this act as a cool off thing, standardized big and wondering(a) boys. More specifically the we is meant to have the reader think rough the validity of the heptad pool players. The seven pool players are unsure of who they really are, but they breakt examination it on a daily creation consciously; so rt of they continually state what makes them cool and how cool they are. The phrase plump fast, die young, and leave...'