Incident

This poem is also about discrimination. It talks about a memory  the author has that has marked him in an awful way when he was just a child. He was referred as a "nigger" by another boy from the same age. Even though, the children are so young and they don't even completely know the meaning of this word, one boy uses it to discriminate the author. It is surprising how the parents educate their children and since that age the discrimination is present.

When the author smiles to the white children, and that boy calls him a nigger, he felt like if a snake has bite him and all the poison was running through his body. Discrimination is a terrible action that can mark everyone's life.

The Purloined Letter

I like a lot this story!!!!! This is my favorite genre, like 2 years ago I was a super fan from Sherlock Holmes and his adventures. This story is full of misteries and I like that a lot. I think in my another life I was a detective. The plot of the story is about a letter that is missing and the content is very important to the royal family.

I hope we read more stories like this through the year, becuase really I enjoy reading this stories that makes me think what will happen next. The end of the story was a little surprising but I still like it. Good story!

Harlem

This poem talks about what will happen in the future with all the poor areas, with the inconformity of the people, with the angry of the community. It makes us think that someday all this people will raise. It is uninmaginable what are this people capable of doing.

This poem is short but with a big meaning and gives us a lot to think. What will happen to all the people in this poor areas, with the fault of theirs rights. We have to make a change right now! Or they will explode.

Let My People Go!

This is also a spiritual bur this talks about mostly of freedom instead of slavery as the other one. It makes an allusion to the egiptians times, in the time of Moses. The refrain in this spiritual is "Let my people go!" that makes us think that in some kind they will be free because they will  get tired of all the mistreatments.

When I read it I imagine a complete idea of how they were mistreated and suffering and how it was the slavery time. They have to understand that we are equal, no matter which color your skin are. Also the rythm in this spiritual is cool.

Swing low, sweet chariot.

This text is a spitirual, a spiritual is a text song by black people in the times of slavery to motivate them against it. The first stanza consists of two repeated lines that introduce the image of the poem. The image is a char­iot that descends from the sky to carry the speaker home. Also, it includes an allusion, refers to another text, when it mentions the Jordan, it refers to the river Jordan to the Bible.

This African-American spiritual was song by the slaves during their work to don't give up and to have a hope that someday slavery will end. I like this song because we song it like we were the slaves, and in some kind I felt bad about them.

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Coming for to carry me home

This song starts with the refrain that refers to a chariot that comes for the people and take them to their hometown. The firs time I read it, I didn't understand very well but as later we explain it, it was a lot easier. I imagine all the people singing this song and all the feelings they might feel like happiness, the desire of freedom and hope.

At first, I didn't notice the allusion to the Jordan river, but now I know what it is and how identify it. Also this song is full of metaphors like " a band of angels coming after me" it refers to like the savers, because finally the will be taken home, and they won't be anymore slaves.

Let My People Go

This song is by an unknown author. It is to avoid slavery and discrimination. It helps me a lot to instead of just reading it, sing it, because you create like an atmosphere of that time. The theme of this song it is very simple he or she wants to liberate their people from mistreatments.

The refrain "Let my people go" gives emphasize to the message. As this is a spiritual, it helped people to fight for their rights, and to finally break free. Also, it tells a story about Moses and the pharaoes to let the people return to their home.

Virtual Love

By Nepthali De León, Virtual Love is a poem of nowadays love, of how the technology can changes a simple feeling or emotion. This is a new topic of course, but it is very common to find a couple that met in any social web and now they are married. I think this author has a great creativity or a huge source of inspiration, because in this poem he describes everything that people feel when they are in love, for example, "their hearts were on fire as they came online".

This poem makes us uderstand that even though the people don't know each other in real life, they are in love of the idea of love and that they are happy with that. Maybe the phrase "love is blind" could fit correctly in this situation. I really like the poem because it is a whole new common situation between everyone and it is true of how people can love without meeting the other person.

The Napkin Poets

This poem by Nepthalí de León is very good and creative, I really liked it. The author made a lot of comparisons and metaphors like "the napkins wait like a young virgin girl..." and so on. Other thing, that really helps me understand completely was the traduction to Spanish.

From now on, every time that I have to write on any napkin I will remember this poem and I will imagine that my pen "is spilling their passions" even though I just write a little memo or a phone number. And, like in Toy Story that the toys are personificated when the humans aren't there, I think that the napkins will be too, until their napkin poets return.

How to tame a wild tongue

 “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, by Gloria Anzaldua, is a very expressive story about a Mexican American woman who want to preserve her culture. Her main conflict is to keep a form of Spanish, called “Chicano Spanish”, in use. In the short story she says, " for a people who cannot entirely identify with either standard Spanish, or standard English, what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?". She is saying that even though the societies, both Mexican and American want her to do she will not give up. The American Society would like her to speak proper English, while the Mexican Society wishes she would speak proper Spanish. With both pressures oh these societies, she thinks the only solution is to create their own language. That language becomes known as Chicano Mexican, which is basically a mix of everything she has been taught by both societies.

Woman Hollering Creek

After reading this story I noticed the big dependance a woman can have through the time with his husband, even though she was mistreated, punched or insulted, she stood up with him. In this story the names represents a lot, like Dolores, Soledad, Felice and Graciela. The neighbors of Cleófilas were Dolores and Soledad, that gives us a complete idea of how was the life of Cleófilas. When she finally leaves her house, she escapes with Felice, so we can infer that Felice represents the freedom Cleófilas is about to have. I will never live like Cléofilas being abused of her husband or any other person.

Wild Blessings

This short poem expresses that it is kind of good to understand the people and the problems they have, but it isn't good even healthy to start worrying a lot for anyone else problems, because we make bigger the situation and also creates a whole new problem, and the situation turns more serious. It is nice to help other people but all have a limit, we can't help others if we are bad emotionally or physically. We should be in the right conditions to help others, if anything we could, without trespassing the limit. I really like this poem, because it shows to me that everything has its advantages and disadvantages in life.

Los Vendidos

This play is by Luis Valdez, it talks about a group of people that are called chicanos that criticize the mexicans that believe they are americans, like Señorita Jiménez. The play is about that lady and her desire to buy machines that look Mexican - Americans. The seller presents every model with mexican characteristics. Until this part, I didn't like the story very much because I thought it was humiliating and had a lot of stereotypes. 

The end is the best part because it takes a big unexpected turn. After the lady bought the mexican-american model, the models take the money and the lady escapes. Also, now we know that all are humans except of the sales man. The author made me think that the americans just see us like merchandise and machines, and I didn't like it. Even though,  at the end we were more intelligent than the americans.

Starry Night

I think that in this poem she connects her fears with imaginative creatures for example the “great dragon”, “rushing beast of the night”, and “unseen serpent”. In the end, the poem gets shorter and it seems like if it fades into nothing. She wants to decide how her life will end and form part of the sky. In the poem, the town is described as silent, blank, dead, and the sky is full of life and glory.

After reading this poem, I thought that the earth is insignificant, like empty, and being compared with the sky full of stars and beauty. She is depressed and the only thing she wants to do is to die in the dark night watching all the stars in the sky. And in that way she will find her happiness as the night faded. 

Wanting To Die

Wanting to die by Anne Sexton is a poem quite simple that gives all the reasons and the explanation of her wish to die. It talks about the several times she tried to suicide. Also, she mentions a 'betrayal' of her body. She believes that death will take her to a better.

I like this poem because the way she expresses and her use of metaphors and comparisons are great. But, sometimes I feel like sad and kind of depressive when I think of how her life was. It's sad to know that a person has no purpose in life and that deals with depression. Also, her entertainment was to think as many ways to commit suicide.

Her Kind

I read "Her Kind" by Anne Sexton. This poem is now my favorite. I really liked how she chooses the correct words to give the reader the sense of emotion. Also she traps you, and you want to know what is going to happen next.

This poem is about how society has stereotype how woman should be, but Anne Sexton decides that if she has to act like a certain way she will prefer to die rather to be like all the others. I really identificate with this idea, because every person should act the way they want to, instead of following the others.
I would like to read more poems by her.

THE STORM

I liked this story because it left you thinking about what happened before with Calixta and Alcée, or why they don't talk since her wedding, I like the part when sarcastically the author describes her like an overscrupulous person.
The phrase at the end gives the hole point to the story, because it emphasis the relationship between the story and the title.