![]() She has the power to calm her dad down and ease his stress by just doing a simple task like ironing clothes for her father or anyone in her family. The personification of the towel swallowing up the. In a way she is “Ironing out” or taking away her father’s worries with the iron. The alliteration in the beginning uses soft sounds to express the sweetness of the girl writing in the dust. The metaphors in those lines are being compared to all the worries Alvarez “sees” on her dad’s clothes as she is ironing. I Stroke the yoke, the breast pocket, collar and cuffs, until the rumpled heap relaxed into the shape of my father’s broad chest” (Alvarez 2-6). “I ironed out my father’s back, cramped and worried with work. This simile describes how minorities started to fill her little neighborhood quickly and how because of that the police started to watch their little neighborhood more keenly.Īlvarez uses metaphor in almost all her poems but one poem she uses metaphor is in “Ironing Their Clothes”. The second simile in “Queens” is “they had cultivated our street like the garden she’d given up” (Alvarez 25-26). The simile describes how her family finally started getting adjusts into the American lifestyle. ![]() In “Queens” she uses it at the beginning of the poem “By year’s end, a sprinkler waving like a flag on our mowed lawn, we were blended into the block” (Alvarez 4-6). I agree that there is nothing wrong with women working but I do not think it is bad to take care of your home or to be a housekeeper.Īlvarez uses simile in her poem “Queens”. In “Housekeeping Cages” Alvarez writes about how woman are in a way trapped in their own homes cleaning all day (Alvarez 903). In “Dusting” the poet does not want to be like her mom cleaning all day (Alvarez 18). Society is telling us that we should not submit to our future husband and that our bodies are for ourselves. The poems “Dusting” and “Housekeeping Cages” made me think about how the worldview of many women even Christian women has changed and if my worldview has changed during this modern era. Alvarez points this fact out in her poem “Queens” (Alvarez 4-6). My parents are immigrants from Liberia and it took my sisters and them some time to get use the American way like it did for her family. I connected with the fact that it took her and her family a while to get adjusted to America. I personally connected with the research I did about her. The perspective essay by Kelli Lyon Johnson hits on the point of Dominican and American and how that helps her bring a different perspective to bother Dominica and America (Johnson 916). She brings a different perspective as a American with a Dominican Republic background, as a lady poet, and as a feminist. Nothing seemed to challenge me concerning my faith or worldview.Julia Alvarez is worthy poet to study because she brings different perspectives to the poetry world. “Alvarez, like these authors, has altered contemporary American literature by stretching the literary cartography of the Americas.” Because of this she has become an example for future modern writers. As a Latin- American, I like how Alvarez manages to mix both cultures into a new writing style. In the perspective essay, I thought it was interesting how Alvarez responded to the statements on returning to writing in her native language. Scott, que pena!” (line 31, Queens) brought the reality that they still used their language to my mind. ![]() I thought the description of the neighborhood that they lived in was interesting and that the line “ Ay Mrs. For example, “the dining table in script, scrawled/ in capitals on the backs of chairs/ practicing signatures like scales” (lines 3-5, Dusting ) The way that those lines were worded showed the innocence of the speaker and reminded me of the carefree things my siblings do. ![]() I connected with the poem Dusting because it conveyed that there is beauty in performing the smallest of actions.
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