In my mind what it means to “complete” what the poet had begun is just another way of saying that you fully understand what was just read, or maybe finish the stanza of what was just said. Some stanzas end abruptly and it’s our job as the readers to finish what was going to be said or what would make sense. The poem “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks is a straightforward poem so it’s not too hard to put the pieces together. “We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.” I know that based on what was said and what was said earlier in the poem that it’s about teenagers who don’t care about anything and skip school. Based on the year the poem was published, they may be black.
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Hello Justine,
First I would like to say that I agree with you, “complete” does mean that when we read a poem, we should fully understand the message of the poem.
I’m not sure if I should agree with you about teenagers not caring about anything and skip school. But I like that you’ve chosen “We Real Cool”. When I read the poem many times, the question that came in my mind was “Why teens go outside too often?”
The poem speaks about teens not going to the school and only wanting to hang out outside. I think that the teens express themselves as outsider and I also think that they don’t get support from their family like they want to.