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10-28-2015
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “We Real Cool” has beauty, strength, and power rooted in its effective use of line breaks. Brooks’ strategic choice of line breaks affects virtually every aspect of the poem: its pace, rhythm, mood, tone, characters, sound, and meaning.