Analysis Of She Unnames Them By Jimmy Santiago

Many people believe that punches and kicks are more important than words but words can impact you forever. The poem "I Am Offering you this Poem" by Jimmy Santiago and the short story "She Unnames Them" by Ursula Le Guin have proven that wrong. Words can have a lot of power over people, they can either hurt someone or be used for healing.

First, The poem “I am Offering you this Poem” by Jimmy Santiago uses a lot of powerful metaphors and symbols that have powerful meanings behind them. For example, lines 2-4 state “Keep it like a warm coat when winter comes to cover you,” the author is trying to compare the poem to warmth and how it can be a warm coat symbolizing that the poem will give you comfort. He is trying to use those to send a comforting and healing message. We can also see another example of powering words in lines 14-15 “Keep it, treasure this

For example paragraph 11 states "My words now must be as slow, as new, as single, as tentative as the steps I took going down the path away from the house" the author is describing how she has to be careful with her words and comparing them into light beautiful things symbolizing that words are very important and the way you say them can have deep meanings. Another example of this is in paragraph 6 "And the attraction that many of us felt, the desire to smell one another’s smells, feel or rub or caress one another’s scales or skin or feathers or fur, taste one another’s blood or flesh," the author is trying to describe how after she unnamed the animals it was easier to feel a connection between everyone and how without the names that were once related to fear are now gone with the fear itself. This can be connected to how words hurt or heal since getting rid of the names was an enclosing experience and helped everyone feel