this poem reminds me when i graduated from high school and i had the same thought i am now cool i am free from baby stuff i am a college student. shes is like saying her friends and her are growing up fast.but when she saids lurk? she lost me there is it that she steals late? this poem seems like is a fast life thing where people sin do bad stuff and in others eyes they are cool
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See the study sheet on Bb on this poem, and read the critical articles on MAP noted there, as well as Brooks' own comment. You should read this poem as social commentary on the life experience/life style of a particular demographic, and its consequences. The fact that, formally, the speaker's (in this case, not an individual speaker, but the voice of a group or demographic)over-compensating "We" at the end of each line ("end" is key), followed by white, empty space and silence, figures one of the major commentaries... There is also good reason that the voice is not that of an individual, standing alone; we can see group solidarity, here, as a self evasion and evasion of awareness of the larger, existential condition that the poem (see above)implies
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