Since Feeling Is First

I love the metaphors it uses, they're speechless. E.E.Cummings takes your breath away, he can say things so strong and deep in just a few simple words. " The best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eah other" makes say WOW instantaniously, but even more to say "life's not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis". It really gets you thinking in that, because life IS too complex to be just a paragraph and death is the bas of life is part of it, it's not just something extra that can be deleted and nothing happens like a parenthesis. "kisses are a better fate than wisdom".

We Real Cool

A poem which doesn't really mean anything, in terms of a teaching. Though the rythm itself make you feel what it is talking about, this jazzy kind of sound it makes, and that's beautiful, just that "trick". Taking all of those alliterations, which turn more and more into something incoherent, and make this great sound, just with the phrase "Jazz June" it shows so "smooth".

Can you telll what the poem is about?

The Storyteller

A story inside a story. It's probably one of the main qualities that makes a good story since it gives more to it making it complex. "The Storyteller" is a great story, it just mucks, in a certain way, society, but in a true subtle way that some could misperceive. I, ironically, like the stranger better than the aunt, even if he is a jackass, because he spices things up and the aunt is to dull for my taste. The fact that it was metafiction reminded me to another story, one of "Novelas Ejemplares" of Miguel de Cervantes, "El Coloquio de los Perros". This story is inside "El Casamineto Engañoso", and inside "El Coloquio..." is the story of the witch. This twists the story so much that makes it so intriguing leaving you wanting more.

Everyday Use: For Your Grandma

Arrogance is a characteristic I've always loathed. It is just despicable. The main character is named Dee, and it was perfect actually cause it suits her perfectly, because in just the name you picture a pretty, young brat who thinks she's so much better than everyone else that she has the right to treat people as she pleases, or maybe not so explicit but still a silly blonde that has no clue how she really is. She is probably the most arrogant girl I've ever read about, but the thing is it's not just on her since she learn that with her mother, which is actually very curious because her mother is nothing like that, but I'm guessing she spoiled her a lot, even though she finally came to her senses and cut her off. The hard truth is that sometimes it is not only the kid's fault, sometimes it relies much more in the way her parents raised her, in the parents education itself.