Poems usually focus around different topics. “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brook, “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, “Dream Boogie” by Langston Hughes and “The Red Wheelbarrow” by Williams have a lot of common and different features. It is necessary to analyze each of the poems in order to find them.
Gwendolyn Brooks' ballad "We Real Cool" aggregates up the truth that numerous adolescents confronted on the off chance that they cleared out school. Numerous adolescents abandoned the thought of having a future, since they were informed that they had no future; so why attempt. The young men in the lyric appear to be battling with character.
However, "The Red Wheelbarrow" is quite different. It is a brief piece of poetry written in free verse. It is made out of four stanzas, each comprising of two short lines. The whole ballad contains just sixteen words, four words in every stanza. The verse "I" doesn't show up, setting the peruser in direct contact with the pictures of the lyric. These are displayed one by one in short lines, which moderate the perusing and center the peruser's consideration on every piece of data in an arrangement that suspends consummation of the scene until the last word. The amazement certain in this game plan is especially present in the lyric as it was initially distributed, without a title, as ballad number "XXII" in Spring what not. In that book William Carlos Williams interchanges sections of writing communicating his hypotheses of verse with gatherings of sonnets delineating those speculations.
Although, “We Real Cool” has many similarities with “Dream Boogie”. This sonnet is reminiscent of the verse of Langston Hughes, in the way that it is composed to be perused like a tune or an affirmation. She utilizes short expressions that will probably stick in the peruser's head. By beginning a line with the words "sneak," "strike," and "bite the dust" rather than "we" she is putting accentuation on the activities of the young men and the result of those activities. Each of the couplets in the ballad rhyme: "cool" and "school," "late" and "straight," "sin" and "gin," and "June" and "soon," which makes a melodic tone. It sounds exceptionally infectious when one understands it; when somebody peruses a ballad that rhymes they will probably recollect that sonnet. The "we" toward the end of each line incites a feeling of fellowship until the end when they pass on. Their lifestyle will surely end in death. All they will ever be known just like the pool players at the Golden Shovel. The underlying straightforwardness of the sonnet serves to welcome the peruser to break down the content, looking for the more profound importance.
“We Real Cool” and “Ballad of Birmingham” has somehow similar audience. So as “Dream Boogie”. The primary stanza begins off with "Great morning, daddy!" which sets the tone for the ballad. It sets up the jazz voice by the utilization of the slang word "daddy." The speaker is attempting to get his gathering of people to perceive the figurative discontent that lies underneath the verses.
Both of the poems somehow allure to parents on the behalf of children. In the sonnet “Ballad of Birmingham”, by Dudley Randall, written in 1969, Mr. Randall employments of incongruity to depicts the occasions of the moms choice, furthermore her sympathy toward the welfare of her dear little kid. It appears to be odd that this kid would even recognize what an opportunity walk is, yet this would be viewed as typical back in the mid 1960's, when Mr. Martin Luther King Jr. had arouses and flexibility walks to free the African American individuals from separation and isolation. It likewise appears to be exceptionally unexpected that the youthful kid is acting like a grown-up in this specific circumstance. I think the mother would be the person who might need to go to the walk to free her kin, not the youngster. In the sonnet "Song of Birmingham", by Dudley Randall, written in 1969, Mr. Randall utilizes tone and incongruity to portray the occasions of the moms choices, and in addition her sympathy toward her youngster's prosperity. However, it is necessary to state that all of these poems allure more to the historical events rather than to children parents’ relationship. All of these poems use the symbol of children or daddy in order to send out a stronger message to the society.
All of the four poems have very interesting openings, so to say introductions that are definitely quite different from each other. “We Real Cool” opens with the scene of seven young men at a pool lobby named the Golden Shovel. Seven is a number that is ordinarily connected with being fortunate. The seven pool players can likewise be seen to speak to a little posse, and they require fortunes on their side, with a specific end goal to survive their different money related and unsafe attempts. The name of the pool lobby, the Golden Shovel, connotes the short future of the individuals who pick an existence of wrongdoing over instruction. The brilliant part of the title suggests that these pool players are youthful; they ought to be in school rather than in a pool lobby. In this way, the importance of the name of the pool lobby is that the pool players who hang out there are conducting so as to burrow their own particular graves unlawful business. The pool players appear to be energizing, since they aren't doing what they should be doing; they aren't avoiding any unnecessary risks.
“Dream Boogie” has its own type of opening. By beginning a line with the words "sneak," "strike," and "bite the dust" rather than "we" she is putting accentuation on the activities of the young men and the result of those activities. Each of the couplets in the ballad rhyme: "cool" and "school," "late" and "straight," "sin" and "gin," and "June" and "soon," which makes a melodic tone. It sounds exceptionally infectious when one understands it; when somebody peruses a ballad that rhymes they will probably recollect that sonnet. The "we" toward the end of each line incites a feeling of fellowship until the end when they pass on. Their lifestyle will surely end in death. All they will ever be known just like the pool players at the Golden Shovel.
As opposed to the other poems, in the principal stanza of “Ballad Birmingham” incongruity is utilized as a part of request to make perusing the lyric additionally fascinating. The circumstance in this first stanza is additionally critical. The little youngster is in a urgent circumstance and needs to better the lives of the African Americans. Randall likewise concentrates on particular society here. The speaker is permitting the peruser to make a mental picture of one particular walk in Birmingham.
In the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” the artist starts with an unoriginal articulation, made out of unique words: "such a great amount of depends/upon." This stanza makes tension by bringing up the issue, what relies on upon what? This is mostly replied in the second stanza: "a red wheel/wheel barrel." conversely with the expressions of the principal stanza, every word here, aside from the article "a," brings out a feeling of impression. By partitioning "wheelbarrow" into its parts, "wheel" and "wheel barrel," and by breaking the line after "dump cart," the writer moderates the perusing, which engraves the picture on the peruser's psyche.
In conclusion, all of these poems tell their own story. All of the poets use their own attention getters and introductions towards the themes. However, all of them try to send a similar message to the reader. Often they use similar metaphors. It is important to read between the lines in order to understand the hidden message.
Works Cited
Gwendolyn B.“We Real Cool”. Print.
Hughes, L. “Dream Boogie”. Print.
Randall, D. “Ballad of Birmingham”. Print.
Williams, W. “The Red Wheelbarrow”. Print.
