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THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT A GOLDEN SHOVEL
BY GWENDOLYN BROOKES
Slide2GWENDOLYN BROOKES
Slide3AMERICAN GHETTO
Slide4THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL
Luck number seven
Seven pool players
IRONY7 is a lucky number but it is ironic because the players die in the end of the poem, thus they are not lucky.
IRONY
Good fortune (digging for gold)
Digging their graves
CONTRAST
Golden = no hard labour
Shovel = labour
Slide5WE REAL COOL. WELEFT SCHOOL. WE
EMPHASISTells us what the pool players are doing.
The pool players think they are very ‘cool’ by leaving school and to do bad things
Slide6LURK LATE. WESTRIKE STRAIGHT. WE
To wait, sometimes hiding in order to frighten, annoy or attack someone
Hit against or crash into someone or something
argue
ALLITERATION
“L” sound
“S” sound
Hit the snooker ball
Argue or say something straight out
Slide7SING SIN. WETHIN GIN. WE
ALLITERATION
“S” sound
RHYME
The pool players regard sin as morally fitting and good.
Pool players drink gin with a mix e.g. gin &tonic
P
ool players (kids) drink hard liquor
Slide8JAZZ JUNE. WEDIE SOON.
ALLITERATION“J” SOUND
Have a good time (sex) with a girl named June
May listen or play Jazz music
All their actions lead to death. Either from violence or abuse of alcohol and drugs
Slide91. Though it’s written from the perspective of seven people we never really feel like the pool players are talking. Rather, the speaker is trying to imagine their thoughts.
2. The word “golden” is symbolic
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s summer, youth, daytime and riches. This is ironic because the aimless lives of the pool players seem anything but golden
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umber 7 implies a lucky number but these boys are unlucky seeing that they foresee their own deaths.
Slide103. Tell us what the pool players are doing and it creates enjambment and speeds up the flow of the poem. Can imply that the pool players actions speeds up their own death.
4. The author’s tone is neither angry or judgemental. The word choice rather describes the way things are and uses straightforward, matter-of-fact language and allows the reader to draw his own conclusion.
Slide115. Open ended
6. From the outside – criticise but in a sarcastic manner
From the pool players – romanticised, they see sin a morally fitting and good
7. Dig for fortune or dig your own grave
8. “We left school”
9. “We sing sin
We thin gin”
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THE POOL PLAYERS.
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