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.