"We Real Cool" & "Metaphors"

This week in class we read poems, unfortunately I didn't get to read many in the first half of the week due to an American Gov. presentation I had so I wont blog here and try to make it sound like I fully read or understood them. However, I did enjoy a few of the second poems we read. One I especially connected with was "We Real Cool", by Gwendolyn Brooks. I say this because unfortunately a lot of this poem reminds me of a past group of friends. We did almost all the same things this poem describes, aside from the playing pool, but along the same lines. And when they were all dropping out of school, I was one of the few who stayed in, and since that time we've all somewhat faded away from each other whether it be through school, work, or just continuing along with the "We Real Cool" ways of living. So this poem does hit home with me but in a bad way because of the last line, "Jazz June. We
Die soon.", which honestly sometimes scares me for obvious reasons.

The one I really like was "Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath. At first i though this poem was a cruel trick of a poem just to keep the reader guessing on what it was about. So I read it a second time, and again I though it was just a poem meant to confuse the reader. So finally I caved in and had to look it up online and read that it was about pregnancy. And then I realized that this poem makes plenty of sense. Every single line makes sense, because she describes herself as yeast rising, a watermelon with two legs, and even saying she has boarded a train and theres no turning back. All finally make sense once you realize that it's about being pregnant. Now as I keep reading it, while writing this blog, I am realizing that i really do enjoy this poem.

So for this week those were the two that I connected with and thoroughly enjoyed and once again I know that as long as we keep reading poems I will be an entertained student in this class.