For A Bilingual Writer, 'No One True Language': NPR.
Structure and poetic devices Theme and characters English and spanish - Parentheses. Spanish - Connection, Euphony 18 lines, divided in couplets enjambments rhyme personification “that words might cut in two his daughter’s heart” (line 3). “until my tongue (mi lengua) learned to.Bilingualism is known to be a trait that benefits the individual in numerous ways. The cognitive process of bilingual people is known to be better than monolinguals, whether substantial or minimal. Scientists conducted experiments that show bilingual children are able to accomplish conflicting tasks.Espaillat's speaker is a frustrated bilingual poet: she knows two worlds and expresses them as such in her verse, even though her father would like her to keep her English and Spanish selves apart.
Relation to Reality Poem was published in a collection in the year 1998 It reaches out to people from different Ethnicities Communication does not need to be through language and can be through an emotional connection Common misconception: language is a divisor Difficulties.This poem gives voice to the conflict of the speaker, a girl who is growing up multi-culturally and bilingually. Her father is fearful that with her growing proficiency of English, the speaker will.
The poem’s fourth stanza captures the way the concentration required by the job of parenting shaped her way of knowing the world: Spoon-fed to me each evening, history puts on my children’s faces, because they are the one alphabet all of me reads. The closing of the poem seamlessly connects the exigencies of daily life with the art of writing.
