Hi Citlaly, I believe that when you say “we are not from just one place or the other but we are a mixture of both.” is what Paredes’s try to emphazise in this line of his poem: “he no gotta country, he no gotta flag.” The idea of not knowing where you really belong, that you are not just for one place because you are the mixture of both, as you said.
In this essay I am going to explain how Clarke explores human relationships through the study of two of her poems. The poems that I will be analysing in detail are “Catrin and Baby-sitting”. Firstly, both poems have something in common, which is they both talk about human relationships in our day to day life. Secondly, they also talk the people love and our feeling towards another child. The first poem, that I have chosen is an autobiography and the second poem express of approach to someone else’s child.
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
The second tape is addressed to Alex Standall, who during their freshmen year, made a list saying that Hannah had the “best ass” in her freshman class. By being labeled with the “best ass” it leads to Hannah being assaulted numerous times. The third tape was addressed to Jessica Davis, a girl that was also new to the school. Jessica started to date Alex and then was later mad at him for choosing Hannah over her in the list which ended the friendship between Jessica and Hannah, and the ended relationship of Alex and Jessica.
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.
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.
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.
Bastian Ramirez Red Class Miguel Pinero “So please when I die.. don’t take me far away keep me nearby take my ashes and scatter them thur out the Lower East Side” – Miguel Pinero “A Lower Eastside Poem”. Miguel Pinero was one of the most well-known Puerto Rican writers of his time. Winning a Tony Award in 1975 with his play “Short Eyes” and being nominated for a Drama Desk Award, New York Drama Critics’ Circle and an Obie Award. Miguel Pinero was not only a poet, he was also a play writer and an actor. With all his qualities, Pinero helped create the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City.
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.
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
I think this is what Manõel means in the quote above, he wants to be in America, but he still wants some ties to home. This is why counterbalancing programs started to pop up in Latino dominated communities, Manõel was one of many American Latinos that wanted activities, food, and festivals that reminded them of home (Class lecture, Cultural
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.
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".
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.
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.