| Part 1 Identify the theme of the poem. How do you know this is the theme? I think that the theme of this poem is making bad choice in their life, from this theme I feel they left school and started making bad choices and it cause their death. Define the poetic devices (e.g., rhythm, figurative language, etc.) used in the poem. Offer at least two examples. The devices that are used in this poem are rhyme and repetition. The rhyme device come into play when the Author use the word's Cool/School, Late/Straight, Sin/Gin, and June/soon, they use we is use at the end of every line. Analyze how these poetic devices contribute to the development of the poem’s message. With the repetition, I was always that it was a group doing the actions not just one person. Also I think that when a author uses rhymes in a poem it is always easier for me to read. Support your ideas with textual details and analyses. when I was listening to video I gather from , "We Real Cool" give a life lesson. Dropping out of school and roaming the street is not cool, it can lead to a dead end street. The poem of" My Papa's Walty" was very emotional poem that a child met very greatest contact with one or both parents my being a alcoholic and showing bad way of behaving. Part 2 How did hearing the poem recited aloud compare to a silent reading of it? While hearing the poem, as I was reading I heard a few things that sound the same as I was reading the poem, it sounds like the words was being Stressed, "We". I notice something different that I did not understand, she was paused after each sentence. Did the performance highlight certain words or phrases that were not as apparent in a silent reading? Gwendolyn stress the words real, sing, sin, gin, jazz and many more in her performance. Every sentences was highlighted in the action word when I was listening to it. Did the pace change and, if so, how did it change your understanding of the poem? The pace changed for me because when I read the poem, I just read it as a complete series of words that make sense and that have a subject and a verb instead, she paused for the sentence that has Verb and Subject and after the word "We" Yes I understand now how Gwendolyn , how she now thinks and how she write her poems. Did words have different connotations when spoken aloud, and, if so, what kind(s) of connotation did you associate with the poem? the title nearly sounded mad to me and it sound very confused, and irritated with his father, he was trying to say that he cares for him even the way his father mistreat him. Do you think reading poetry aloud is a worthwhile endeavor when analyzing it? Why, or why not? Yes, I believe everyone say words different and hear it different when they say it out load, and that you can over look at something when you read in the poem's. | 
