{"id":1284,"date":"2022-04-24T18:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2022-04-24T18:53:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T18:53:03","slug":"we-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/2022\/04\/24\/we-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In &#8220;We Real Cool&#8221; by Gwendolyn Brooks, the speaker emphasizes the importance of the collective &#8220;We&#8221; with the employment of enjambment throughout the poem. With each sentence ending with the beginning of a new one starting with the word &#8220;We,&#8221; readers are forced to pause before and after each &#8220;We.&#8221; Given the racial context in which this poem was produced and the continual stressing of the word &#8220;We,&#8221; the speaker demonstrates the strong sense of unity felt among African-Americans during the Civil Rights Movement, despite their difficult and treacherous experiences living in a prejudiced America.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;We Real Cool&#8221; by Gwendolyn Brooks, the speaker emphasizes the importance of the collective &#8220;We&#8221; with the employment of enjambment throughout the poem. With each sentence ending with the beginning of a new one starting with the word &#8220;We,&#8221; readers are forced to pause before and after each &#8220;We.&#8221; Given the racial context in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-group-c","category-thesis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/uncommonsense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}