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Good Hotdogs Poem

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Poem number 1 is titled “Good Hotdogs” by Sandra Cisneros. This poem is about two girls that run two blocks to get hotdogs for lunch. The tone of this poem is hungry and excited. And, poem number 2 is titled “ode to Artichoke” by Pablo Neruda. This poem is about an artichoke being moved from a garden setting to a market setting and being bought by a girl named Maria. The tone of this poem is brave because the artichoke was not sad that he was going to be bought since that was what he was grown for.
The tone in the first poem is that the girls are very happy and anxious to eat hotdogs for lunch together. Some evidence to support this is that in the poem the speaker had said “We'd run/ straight from school/ instead of home/ two blocks/ then the store/ that smelled like steam.” This shows me that the girls have been patiently for school to end so that they could buy there hotdogs. Another piece of evidence from the poem is where it state’s “Two hotdogs and two pops for here/Everything on the hotdogs/Except pickle lily/Dash those hotdogs/Into buns and splash on/All that good stuff/Yellow mustard and onions/And French fries piled on top all.” This signals to me that the girls were very hungry and eager to get the hotdogs …show more content…

Some evidence to support this is that in the poem the speaker had said “in the kitchen garden/equipped like a soldier/burnished/ like a grenade/ was full of itself.” This tells me he was pretending to be a soldier standing at attention in the garden watching over all the fruits and vegetables. Another piece of evidence is where the poem state’s “fearlessly/chooses/an artichoke,/studies it, squints at it/against the light like an egg,/buys it,.” This signals to me that the artichoke was okay with being bought, cooked, and eaten. He was also being brave because Maria was squeezing him and he didn’t show any emotion and that tells me that he was very

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