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Analysis of Literary Language, Clifton's poem is the word, the light…

- - - - Acevedo uses the power of The Word to heal
        
        "And The Word Was Made Flesh
    - - "But, O my soul, sink not into despair,
        Virtue is near thee" "lead celestial Chastity" "Greatness, or Goodness, say what I shall call thee"
- - - - I wish you'd read your poems, We need poems to heal"
        "I'm not ready to heal"
      - "She then wondered if my personal history was somehow too close to the first therapist's, issues that she herelf had not fully processed..."
    - - "You died too, You just don't know it."
        
        The main character is stuck in the moment and has not moved on with their lives. the main character has yet to face themselves
    - - "It never dawned on her that, though sixth generation American, we were still Mexican and that all Mexicans are part Indian"
      - "I am still afraid because i will have to call us on a lot of shit like our own racism, our fear of women and sexuality"
  - - - Ruth Behar is more immersed in the world of Cuba within her. Blanco struggles with answering whether he is done with Cuba.
    - - The humans in the poem struggle with the separation of two worlds, their human, owner obssessed one, and natures
        
        "But this flower does not want to be named. Does not want to be owned"
    - - The ambiguity of who is what race throughout the story suppresses the clashing of black and white between the main characters, but the question of what happened to Maggie is intensified by the opposite worlds they inhabit
    - - "An Estuary is where the river meets the seas. It is the collision of two worlds; it is where the new world meets the old world"
      - "A body always returns to the place that shaped it. A body returns to is ghosts"
- - - - The story is one they tell every year, one that keeps occurring as if no one listens
    - - Nguyen goes into different events in America's shameful past, the bombing of Vietnam, accepting refugees only so they dont become communists, the banning of the chinese.
      - "And the ay to overcome fear is to demand the America that should be, and can be, the America that dreams the best version of itself" Hopefully America heeds the warning.
    - - "As women, we have been taught to either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for seperation and suspicion rather than forces of change"
  - - - "Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back"
        
        There is no pride in dying quietly, may as well make some noise
    - - "So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive"
      - "For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision"
  - - - Anger is used to correct the system. Anger in Women of color in particular is necessaryto be a vehucle for change.
      - "My anger is a response to racist attitudes, to the actions and presumptions that arise out of those attitudes....For corrctive services, not guilt."
    - - "Unlikely to be firiends of people in high literary places, th beginning woman of color is invisible both in the white male mainstream world and in the white women's feminist world"
      - The act of writing...is the quest for the self, for the center of the self, which we women of color have come to think as the "other"
- - - - Nature is used as a connector to other people "Linked by sweetgrass, there is reciprocity between you, linked by sweetgrass, the holder as vital as the braider."
    - - "Images of Skywoman speak not just of where we came from, but also of how we can go forward
    - - Pecans are used to connect themselves to their ancestors, to the land. They live by the timing of the fruit, putting them on natures timing.
  - - - Food is used as a healing and connecting factor for Mr. Pirzada. It connects him to his country and family, as well as the family that invites him over despite the war.
    - - "But surprisingly, no one--not even Abuela--blamed the turkey" Despite the sickness and the addition of the strange food, the blending of food and culture brings the members together
    - - "It's fod that fixes us to this moment only, to this place we hardly know"