"Seven at the Golden Shovel" is a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks.
He calls it the Golden Shovel.You take a line from a poem you like and use it as an end word in your poem while maintaining the order.The cento is a form in which you make a poem from other poets' lines.
What does jazz June mean in We Real Cool?Readers point to the word "jazz" as meaning to have sex with.June is both a month of the year and a person named June.
"We Real Cool" is a powerful poem that shows a life learning message to its reader.Dropping out of school and roaming the streets isn't cool, but in actuality is a dead end street, that's whatBrooks is trying to send.
This poem uses a lot of other sound devices such as consonance, assonance and slant rhyme.