The second poem ‘’Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’’ is about a mixed race girl who tells us about the gifts she receives from her aunts in Pakistan. She likes these vibrant gifts but feels weird wearing them because they are uncomfortable and she prefers wearing English clothes-‘denim’ and ’corduroy’. She tries to imagine what her homeland (Pakistan) is like for she traveled to England when she was just a few months old. She feels as if she doesn’t fit into both countries and thinks she’s all alone. The poem Half-Caste is about Jhon Agard who is mixed race.
Juain C. Means 09/10/2010 Analyzing “The Century Quilt” Marilyn Waniek’s poem “The Century Quilt” displays an individualized type of inspiration by detailing the persona’s reading process. Although the speaker is neither the maker nor the owner of the quilt, she somehow comes to own a quilt that is symbolic of her past life. As the character reads her quilt, she puts together different parts of her own mixed racial heritage. Marilyn uses the poem to relay a message to those in search of a lost personal heritage. In the poem, the author reminds the reader that a patchwork quilt, like any other blanket, is merely meant to keep someone warm, but the Century Quilt comes to focus on other purposes, such as the consolation of something special in someone’s life.
Cisneros found an outlet in writing. In high school she wrote poetry and was the literary magazine editor. She earned a BA in English from Loyola University of Chicago in 1976. However, it wasn't until working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in the late 1970's that she says she found her way, as a working-class, Mexican-American woman. The experience of recognizing her difference from other students at Iowa eventually led to the writing of The House on Mango Street, which was published by Arte Publico Press of Houston in 1984 and won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 1985.
Critics thought of him and his work as a good poet and an even better writer who made a major difference in the Harlem renaissance. Harold Bloom thought that “Thomas hardy, with his acute sense of life’s ironies, might have admired Sterling Brown’s Rain Which Precedes Robert Penn Warren in reviving Hardy’s Sprit” (5). Blyden Jackson a critic of the time likes Sterling Brown because he is a great poet and how Brown uses dialect with precision. David Littlejohn said that “Brown Attempted to do for the south what Langston Hughes did for the north” (Bloom 19). People thought that Brown’s irony was sharp, his ideas were exciting, and he was not only and protestor of his time but one of the first times.
Chapter one is the arrival of Hortense in England in 1948 after travelling from Jamaica to meet her husband Gilbert. Levy tells the story through Hortense's viewpoint, and as a Jamaican having never before visited England, her perceptions are much different from her expectations. The chapter begins with Hortense arriving at the dock after travelling by ship to London. From the start it is clear that England is not all Hortense believed it to be. She believed it to be a place of privilege and sophistication, which she has learnt all about at her teaching college back in Jamaica.
“A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, was an interesting story about an abnormal woman in the community that everyone talked about. “We Real Cool,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, remind me of the stories my grandfather use to tell me about his community he grew up in. Reading literature is a great way to get in touch with yourself
This is where she had access to a wonderful library that was full of many authors that she became well known too. Bradstreet lived a puritan life, however, she did not agree with some of their beliefs. Bradstreet conformed to some of the puritan life. She looked after her family and husband. When she arrived in the New World in 1630, “she was overwhelmed by the sickness, lack of food, and primitive living conditions” (Gonzalez, 2000).
Throughout the poem the child portrayed in the poem seems to be awkward and indifferent towards her mother. However, the child ends up fascinated with her mother even exclaiming the fact that her mother is actually hers and no one else’s. The mechanics of the poem are not very structured as Olds seems to almost always use a free verse style of writing. The poem “I Go Back to May 1937” is a poem of thirty lines that uses imagery to describe the scene of her parents as they depart into college together. The first nine lines beginning with an exploration of two adults signified by the terms "gates" and "colleges."
The book by the Modoc tribe “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” shows that their cultural beliefs matter a lot to them. “The Earth on Turtle’s Back” talks about how much respect the Onondaga tribe has for the natural world. They believe that each creature has its own power. The book shows kindness and respect for one another. Even though the Sky Chief did not show any respect for the nature, when he asked the men to uproot the tree, he still respected the nature and his wife by uprooting the tree just to make her dream come true.
The young woman I first want to discuss is Phyllis Wheatley, an African slave writing poetry in English. “If Wheatley stood for anything, it was the creed that culture, was, and could be, the equal possession of all humanity. It was a lesson she was swift to teach, and that we have been slow to learn” Born in Senegal, Africa in 1753, Wheatley was a slave child of seven or eight and sold to John and Susanna Wheatley in Boston on July 11, 1761. Her first name was derived from the ship that carried her to American, The Phyllis. During her