In one of the stanza, the lyrics say “May they bury me in the mountains, at the foot of the maguey fields, and may that land cover me, that is the birthplace of honorable men.” These lyrics to me produce an image of my parents hometown in Mexico because there is a town near that has maguey fields. As I was reading and listening to the lyrics I was able to picture the scenery of a maguey field in my head because I have seen a field of magueys before. Overall, the message the composer achieved with this song is that Mexico is a beautiful place and loves
Common migration problem on the examples of the poem of “Elena” and the story “No speak English”. The poem ,”Elena” by Pat Mora and the story, ”No speak English”, by Sandra Cisneros show how difficult it is to get used to living in a foreign country and feel like an alien in a new society. This problem called alienation. For instance, the poem “Elena” gives us a sense of the protagonist, she feels embarrassed all the time, ”I’m embarrassed at mispronouncing”, she says, “embarrassed at the laughter of my children, the grocery, the mailman”, all of this tormented her. The feelings of embarrassment and shame, are parts of alienation, they oppress the main character, but also help to overcome psychological and domestic difficulties experienced
La Migra is a poem written by Pat Mora about the Mexican - American immigration issue. It’s purpose is to acknowledge the emotions and sentiments of the Mexican immigrants who try to come to the United States illegally. The denotation of the poem’s title means immigration and the connotation is referring to the police officers standing at the Mexico-United States border. The poem is divided into two stanzas to acknowledge immigration through the different perspectives of the illegal immigrant and also through the eyes of the border police. The first stanza is through the perspective of the male border cop, who thinks his power and nonessential items make his superior to the immigrants.
But they understand the old world, the world they came from—and I don’t. I don’t belong anywhere. That’s the problem. (87-88)” In this example, Dante does not feel in tune with his Mexican identity.
Lyric Poetry I have chosen a free verse (uncoiling) by Pat Mora as well as a haiku (Three Haiku) translated by Daniel C. Buchanan as my 2 forms of lyric poetry. In the free verse, the form allows the speaker to send a vivid picture of a tornado by using great detail. Lots of imagery and metaphor is used in her poem. This form does not have a set structure. It is written in multiple stanzas of different lengths.
A person’s nationality is an important part of who he or she is. Where one is born can have an effect on so many aspects of the person they will be. This can include their religion, their physical characteristics, the language they speak, or the persecution they may face because of all those things. The point is that one’s nationality and one’s individuality aren’t separate entities. They add and take away from each other.
We were, after all this other stuff was over, we had a Captain Bard that was put aboard our ship, and he had a fast little skiff that was the captain’s gig, that really had some power to it, and I could drive that. Whenever we took him anywhere, he checked every port in Japan, so I got to see about every big city that was on a port.” The quote shows that just because you may be fighting against a certain thing that a country does, doesn’t mean you have to hate the country and hate the people there. Another example of someone falling in love with the country they fought in or the people there is when a WW2 veteran fell in love with a girl in Britain when he was stationed there. Over time they went separate ways.
It is okay to start a poem feeling that it does not suffice your expectation. Indeed, that should be a reason to force yourself to re-work it harder. As Addonizio suggests, "the more likely it is that you will eventually produce a worthwhile poem" (188). Thus, revision is a process where one has to think deeper and find other ways to examine the same piece. Many strategies can be implemented to achieve a productive re-structuralizing or reinvention of a poem.
Do people appreciate nature as they should? The earth has many different things to give us and we should appreciate it because we might need it in the real world. The earth has many different things we should appreciate like light and night. There are two texts that the readers can look off on that appreciate different things. One text is " Ode to enchanted light" and the other text is " Sleeping in the forest".
The poem Litany recalls the 1960s smilingly tick off the resonances and connotations of Duffy’s acknowledged world. The Presence of the poem’ is then used as the basis for the more ‘inside’ revelation. The poet uncovers the secret tensions behind half-understood, through Duffy uses “Sly like a rumor” which can emphasize her looking back as an adult in which the child under renders Duffy’s revisitation of the past both comical and tragic. Childhoods through the play between recognition and misrecognition.
The poem “A Story” by Li-Young Lee depicts the complex relationship between a boy and his father when the boy asks his father for a story and he can’t come up with one. When you’re a parent your main focus is to make your child happy and to meet all the expectations your child meets. When you come to realize a certain expectation can’t satisfy the person you love your reaction should automatically be to question what would happen if you never end up satisfying them. When the father does this he realizes the outcome isn’t what he’d hope for. He then finally realizes that he still has time to meet that expectation and he isn’t being rushed.
Stephen Burt once remarked that “poems are easy to share, easy to pass on, and when you read a poem, you can imagine someone 's speaking to you or for you, maybe even someone far away.” This relates much to the news and media today; meaning, poetry can be used in such a way that the news is, to share. The difference appears when one realizes that the news outlets share an event’s, hopefully unbiased, details, while poems share the deep and individual emotions of said event. Take Amy Miller’s poem “The Whole Entire” for example.
The 1895 poem IF by poet Rudyard Kipling is addressed to his son John Kipling and centres around the ideals and guidelines of becoming a man. The context of the poem discusses the philosophies and advice from a father figure addressing his son about the principals and ideals of embracing manhood according to the standards of early 20th century stoicism. The poem is written in first person in which the context is the ideology of ethics and principals taught to the intended audience to learn to overcome difficulties of life and adapting into manhood, which is done through the use of poetic device choices emphasising the poet’s perspective. The purpose and context of IF is a set of valuable philosophies and ideologies taught to a son by a father
A melting pot of all such difference. Within this melting pot however are the individual people that made it. In Walter Whitman’s poem “I Hear America Singing” this is best exemplified by the line “Each singing what belongs to him or her and of none else” ( 12). The quote establishes the different voices (people) in America by
Mister Per Factum is the living synonym of precision. That is not mine or anyone else’s claim, but his own proclamation. One may mistake it as another eccentricity of another once a century genius (again, all the claims are of Mr. Factum himself). No, it is more than a mere eccentricity, and it is more than a simple OCD. What it is is the ego of an artist.
