Analysis Of Pat Mora And ' Loose Woman ' By Sandra Cisneros

In the story "Woman Hollering Creek" Sandra Cisneros discusses the issues of living life as a married woman through a character named Cleofilas; a character who is married to a man who abuses her physically and mentally .Cisneros reveals the way the culture puts a difference between a male and a female, men above women. Cisneros has been famous about writing stories about the latino culture and how women are treated; she explain what they go through as a child, teen and when they are married; always dominated by men because of how the culture has been adapted. "Woman Hollering Creek" is one of the best examples. A character who grows up without a mother and who has no one to guid and give her advise about life.

My favorite poem was Offerings to an Ulcerated God by Martin Espada. The reason for this is it was the only poem that really made me empathize and feel emotions for the characters. It jumps right in with a quote from the landlord’s lawyer. He says Mrs. Lopez refuses to pay rent and so she has to leave. Mrs. Lopez is the tenet and only speaks spanish, so the judge ask for an interpreter. But, all the interpreters are working elsewhere. A volunteer interpreter stands and Mrs. Lopez shows the interpreter pictures of her apartment/house. The conditions in this apartment/ house are horrible. It has rats, no doorknob and the water in the toilet is frozen. Mrs. Lopez tells the interpreter that she knows the law, will not pay because of the horrible conditions and wants to speak. Without hearing from Mrs. Lopez, the judge states that she must pay and has 10 days to leave. Everyone accepts this gets up to leave. The interpreter is ashamed he could not help her.

Eavan Boland’s poem “It’s a Woman’s World” illuminates the fact that history has shaped an unfair role for women in today’s society. Boland criticizes the gender bias with regards to the limitations placed on women and their job choices despite their ability to be just as successful in the workplace as men. Regardless of the fact that the bias against women in the workplace is often overlooked, Boland aims to show the shared reaction of women to the gender bias prevalent in our society by using short sentence fragments, repetition, and a fire motif throughout the poem.

How do you deal with stereotypes towards yourself or others that have experienced them? People are stereotyped by their physical features and by the information we know about a certain group. They are judged by their physical features instead of seeing what they are really capable of doing. Usually not being involved in such a diverse community can cause that because they are accustomed to what's near them. Exploring and learning about others will help shatter stereotypes. We'll explore in Sucheng Chan and Judith Ortiz Cofer essays on how they've been stereotyped and what they've done to shatter the quo.

A life in the city of Seguin, Texas was not as easy as Cleofilas, the protagonist of the story thought it would be. The author, Cisneros describes the life women went through as a Latino wife through Cleofilas. Luckily, Cisneros is a Mexican-American herself and had provided the opportunity to see what life is like from two window of the different cultures. Also, it allowed her to write the story from a woman’s point of view, painting a vision of the types of problems many women went through as a Latino housewife. This allows readers to analyze the characters and events using a feminist critical view. In the short story “Women Hollering Creek” Sandra Cineros portrays the theme of expectation versus reality not only through cleofilas’s thoughts but also through her marriage and television in order to display how the hardship of women in a patriarchal society can destroy a woman’s life.

When having a conversation with someone it is easy to know how they are feeling by the tone in their voice. If a person is being funny, they tend to have a smile on their face, but when a person is angry about a particular subject, the tone of their voice becomes extremely loud and overbearing. While reading novels or short stories the characters tone is distinguishable because of the author's use of exclamation points or italicized words. These make the reader understand the characters emotions and feelings throughout the entire book. As for poems, the tone is not as recognizable. A reader is not capable of understanding the tone from just simply glancing at a few words. The tone is derived from several words and

“Every time a woman stands up for herself without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all woman” -Maya Angelou. A story that shows a similar content is titled, “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros. It is a story about a girl with six brothers yet tells herself that the is an only daughter. Cisneros has had hardships of her own when she was growing up with her family because she thought that she wasn’t being recognized by her father as much. Corresponding with the story, “N.O” is a song that’s been written, preformed, and sung by BTS. Their video was released on September 10, 2013: just a few months after their debut. It shows the struggles students face in society and that they try to fit in, and yet they discover that there’s more that they can achieve. The video and book are both have similar themes that are presented differently.

I picked the poem “Finding My Mother” by Mari L'Esperance from her book The Darkened Temple. The language of this poem really caught my interest. Throughout the book the topic has been the mother who later disappeared so the title also caught my eye because a part of me thought that it was possible that the mother had been found-dead or alive. The meaning of the title as I read the poem, of course, ran much deeper than simply what I thought would be more of a physical aspect. It was interesting to contrast my initial thoughts about what the poem would be about with what I know now about it.

My favorite poem out of all five poems we worked with today would have to be Streets. The author really knows how to connect to the reader through many emotions. She was very descriptive on the “streets’ as you can tell. Really read this very carefully and you will be able to analyze and take everything possible out of the reading.

The poem I chose to analyze was “Sestina” by Elizabeth Bishop. I chose this poem due to its structure, use of figurative language, repetition and tone. This poem uses vivid imagery to draw the reader in as though they are present at the grandmother’s house on that rainy September afternoon as the grandmother makes tea and the grandchild draws innocently. The poem takes a turn when the reader realizes that the grandmother is crying as though she has lost someone special in her life. The child drawings reflect those emotions as we analyze what her drawings are actually trying to convey.

“‘Nature’ is What We See” by Emily Dickinson was the most broad and most philosophical poem about nature in my research. It lists our senses, and has words that I had to research and understand. I knew it had a deeper meaning than just from the

Everyone has read poetry in some point of their lives either by choice or by duty. In my case is kind of both, I enjoyed reading the work of Neil Harrison, Nebraskan poet and the author of the book In a River of Wind. In the poems written in the above mentioned print, the author describes slightly moments and turns them into lines of significance.

This week’s poems had sense of feeling or emotion in them. The author was able to make the story stick out without making the story totally about them. This is difficult as the author made points that you could only assume it had to have happened to the author. These poets did a great job portraying emotion that did not just relate to one type of reader it was able to affect each reader’s emotional string. Each trigger of the poem made the reader realize they were apart of movement.

I found that her poems about her sister’s anorexia were the most compelling. Her use of imagery by telling of the computer after her sister passed made me feel like I could visualize the setting. In her poem, “Suddenly I Want Your Leftovers,” she tells about all the items that were left behind after her sisters passing and describes them with such detail. To me this showed how she missed and now cherished the things that were left behind as memories. One line read, “You left six bottles of Jägermeister in your fridge when you died. Three empty, save for a shot. Two full: one hidden by take-out containers, another in the produce bin. One more in your freezer, half-full.” This line shows

The poem that I enjoyed the most was Poem [Lana Turner has Collapsed!] by Frank O’Hara. This was because it had an interesting story to tell. The poem starts off about Lana Turner, an actress, who has collapsed. He encapsulates his feelings by expressing it in his setting. He succinctly shows his sadness by saying that it is a bleak, rainy, snowy day in New York when he learns about this news. He was in a hurry, but when he sees the news he immediately stops with the traffic. He shows how he is shocked with the news by relating it to the traffic.