ipl-logo

Analysis Of I Am Offering This Poem By Jimmy Santiago Baca

634 Words3 Pages

“I just wanna give up” and “I can’t do this anymore”. These phrases are said by many individuals throughout life, but in my opinion no one should never give up in life even if you have lost hope already. This message is shown throughout many poems that talk about some form of survival, and some of these poems are “I Am Offering This Poem” by Jimmy Santiago Baca and also “The Writer” by Richard Wilbur. In these poems, instead of using the plot to portray the message, they instead use a variety of symbols to represent the idea of not giving up in life. In the two poems “I Am Offering This Poem” by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the speaker’s love(the poem) and “The Writer” by Richard Wilbur, the starling, are both used as symbols that help show the idea of not giving up in life. …show more content…

At the end of “I Am Offering This Poem” the speaker hopes the reader remembers that even though they feel like no one in the world loves them anymore, the speaker will always love them. “When the world outside no longer cares if you live or die; remember, I love you.”(Santiago Baca 27-30). The speaker wishes that his love can help the reader through a difficult time and motivate them to not give up on life even if they don’t feel loved too. This helps prove to us that the speaker’s love is being used as a symbol of not giving up in life, as the speaker wants the reader to use their love as a reason for not giving up as there is still someone who cares for them in the world. Although this explains that the speaker’s love is a symbol of not giving up in life, there’s also another symbol that expresses the same idea that is found in another author’s

Show More
Related
145 Words | 1 Pages

n the poem “green chile” by Jimmy Santiago Baca the author shows us how his culture is like our culture. He likes hanging chile on his door to say that he likes chile and he also puts chile on his eggs in the morning that also states that he likes chile. Another way that he shows language is that he visits his grandma she holds a chile package thens shows she knows baca like chile she probably makes baca chile. More ways of language is that everyone gets along with each other always hanging out with each other.

Read More
246 Words | 1 Pages

In the poem, “Dusting,” by Julia Alvarez, the speaker is being rebellious against her mother and wants to do different things than what her mother wants her to do. In the first stanza, the poet writes that the speaker writes her name many times on dusty furniture “each morning” while the mother followed her to dust the furniture and the mess by the girl. This is an example of the speaker rebelling her mother since this is a metaphor meaning that the girl wants to accomplish different things than her mother but her mother keeps on erasing her accomplishments and wants the girl to be just like her. Another evidence in the poem is at the end of stanza two, where the speaker says “But I refuse with every mark to be like her, anonymous.” This phrase

Read More
969 Words | 4 Pages

Altogether, this symbol of the horizon shows the “love and relationship” part of the theme that Hurston was trying to express. However, as Janie chased after her dreams of love, she had to overcome some burdens, which Hurston also uses a symbol for

Read More
1232 Words | 5 Pages

Another example of symbolism is shown when author William J. Brondell states “She reassures him that she also wants him to have custody of Honoria,and she praises him for his restoration” (Brondell 24). This symbolizes Honoria and hope because it shows that she too believes that Charlie honestly wants to change in order to become a better father. It also shows Charlie’s determination to change for the better and give up his old life up for a chance at a new one, as well as a chance to be a better

Read More
572 Words | 3 Pages

‘For What It’s Worth’ by Buffalo Springfield has a logical message because it is referring to the Sunset Strip Riots that took place in Hollywood during the 1960’s. People protested when they lost their civil rights due to a curfew law that was put into place. The song says, “Stop, children, what’s that sound. Everybody look- what’s going down?”

Read More
574 Words | 3 Pages

My speaker was Ryan Garcia. I saw Ryan Garcia present his speech at a UIL academic meet. His speech was an poem about alzheimer's. The nature of the meet was competitive and fierce!

Read More
1192 Words | 5 Pages

Sour, an album by Singer-Songwriter Olivia Rodrigo is arguably one of the most influential albums ever made in the last ten years. It’s about a heartbreak that happened when she was sixteen and how she perceived the aftermath. Its themes like jealousy and inadequacy are deep and can be applied to many situations, it’s sonically beautiful and very well made, the critical response to the album was amazing and, people of all ages, and backgrounds can relate to this album. This will stand the test of time and will be relevant years down the road.

Read More
1198 Words | 5 Pages

One of his pieces of writings is The Birthmark, and can be broken down into psychological perspectives. Love, which can be argued, holds a lot of meanings which can be defined through each person’s beliefs

Read More
585 Words | 3 Pages

To many people “I am Joaquin” is more than just an epic poem, it is the anthem of the Chicano movement which embodies our peoples struggles and culture. What made the work become the Chicano Movements anthem is the fact that it is a piece that seems to evaluate the Chicanos and their history from the good to the bad. It also seems to emphasize the Chicanos search and struggle for identity starting from the beginning of the Spanish conquest to our modern times. Basically this poem has become such an iconic work because it attempts and succeeds in encompassing as much Chicano history into it and makes no bias choice as it has both positive historical moments and negative, but they all tie back to Chicanos and their history. One of the main aspect that makes “I am Joaquin” an interesting piece of work and an icon for the Chicano movement is how the work seems to

Read More
1396 Words | 6 Pages

In addition to this, at the beginning, they think that they know what love means; they have the hope to find the definition of love and, in the middle of the story they begin to lose in the subject so their hope to find the definition of love also becomes vanishing.” The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from. Yet nobody made a move to get up from the table to turn on the overhead light” (Carver 183). This highlights that towards the end of the story, they do not know what they talk about, interested in coming up with a definition or they do not even move from where they sit so, their hope to find the definition of love is completely gone. As it is shown above, Raymond Carver by using the sunlight as a symbol illustrates the difficulty of love in the

Read More
463 Words | 2 Pages

In a poem it is very good to use different types of figurative language in the poem. These ideas are clearly seen in the poem”Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco, talks about how it is good to be unique ,and yourself. Even if people dislike you or treat you with disrespect. In “Identity”Polanco uses the literary devices of simile, alliteration, and repetition. The poem that Polanco wote is about being unique and yourself is a good thing.

Read More
2026 Words | 9 Pages

The line "How can a century or a heart turn if nobody asks, Where have all the natives gone?" speaks to the erasure and invisibility of Native American communities in a colonial city like New York. However, despite the ongoing violence and displacement, the poem also explores the possibility of love as a form of resistance and reclamation. The line "All my loves are reparations loves" suggests that Diaz’s love for other people, particularly those who have also been marginalized and oppressed, is a way of reclaiming and honoring their own Indigenous identity. I think she also is emphasizing that the act of loving must be accompanied by a commitment to justice and reparations for the harm done by colonialism. Without this commitment, the act of loving can be seen as empty or even complicit in ongoing oppression.

Read More
1244 Words | 5 Pages

The tone at this point in the poem is much more optimistic and happier than the tone from the first four stanzas. This is because now the poet has come to the realization that death will not solve any of his problems; life is hard and always will be but it is a gift that he has to accept with open arms. The author also uses an apostrophe by saying ‘you’ referring to someone or something we do not know about trying to show that people will see him struggle and cry but will not end his life when things get difficult. A rhyme scheme is present in this stanza and also throughout the poem that is ABCB and this helps the poem flow as well as emphasize certain aspects of this line. The image of the man and woman shows the man in therapy.

Read More
698 Words | 3 Pages

The poem "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye speaks about how you experience kindness and what it really is. The main point in this poem is that in order to experience people's kindness you need to experience hurt, sorrow, and loneliness. The author says that when you loose everything and have no one or thing that when kindness comes along it lifts you up "and then goes with you everywhere/ like a shadow or a friend" (33-34). When portraying this message the author uses a sad but hopeful tone to send the message she wants to say. This tone helps portray the message because you can feel how sad someone is when they are lonely and they have nothing.

Read More
369 Words | 2 Pages

The speaker feels hate towards his lover for not being loved but he loves her so deeply he can 't let go. Another example( in line 7) where he states, “Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you.” the author uses the tone hopeful to

Read More

More about Analysis Of I Am Offering This Poem By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Related Topics

Open Document