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A 3 page comparison and contrast concerning what “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Slam, Dunk, and Hook” by Yusef Komunyakaa have to saw about the urban experience. No additional sources cited.
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within a particular class of people within society. One of the most powerful themes of the 20th and the 21st century, in relationship to poetry, is the urban experience. As
young people grow, as technology grows, and the world becomes increasingly complicated, and often chaotic and frightening, the urban experience reflects this condition. Seeking answers, and laying in a sense
of rebellion and individuality that has yet to really be explored, the youth relate to an urban experience that is unique to them, or so they think. They find something
physical, in many respects, and use that to express themselves, while also using it to develop their own special society. The following paper examines, comparing and contrasting, how Gwendolyn Brooks,
in "We Real Cool," and Yusef Komunyakaa, in "Slam, Dunk, and Hook," offer up male youth trying to define themselves through the urban experience of physical games that bring the
young men together as a unique group. The Urban Experience: Brooks and Komunyakaa In both of the poems being examined the writer/narrator has offered up what appears to
be young men in one type of group or another, both groups involved with a physical game. In Brooks "We Real Bad" the young men play pool and in Komunyakaas
"Slam, Dunk, and Hook" it can well be assumed the sport is basketball, a powerful favorite of urban youth today. There is a youthful passion in both poems that
relates to what they do and what they are. They are presented as young individuals who are unique and powerful in that youth. In Komunyakaas poem the beginning indicates, "With
Mercurys/ Insignia on our sneakers,/ We outmaneuvered the footwork/ Of bad angels" (Komunyakka 1-4). There is incredible power, the power of young adults, in these lines as the individuals of
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