Saturday, February 7, 2015
Imagine the Angels of Bread
After reading Imagine the Angels of Bread, I felt an extreme connection to the poem which spurred a lot of thoughts in my mind. The first stanza I believe is essentially stating that what you have done to someone, the punishment will be reverberated back to you. The use of "police revolvers" "Raging cops" and "nightstick splinter" reveals a lot of anger. However, the next stanza I believe displays more of a hopeful optimism to solve an issue that the writer or narrator may have previously been angry about. By the end of the poem, I believe the writer is indicating a new resolution through the constant repetition of the word "if". In my opinion (if I may go off Lamar's film analogies) I believe this is a great theme to a Gladiator movie. The ending seems like a grand entrance for an army to flood the gates of Rome. It serves as an inspiring poem while nevertheless connecting to the fact that we should approach the wrongdoings people inflict upon us with optimism rather than anger.
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Hi Rahul,
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed reading this poem, I like the way Espada switched the societal stereotypes to make us think of these injustices in a different light. She mentions four main groups that have a lot of tension and fear among each other, "squatters/landlords," "refugees/judges," "police revolters/cops," and "blacks/lynches." Once these positions are shifted, so do their trains of logic and justice. What I can infer is that this author is Hispanic, and she is writing about the American life in her point of view as a refugees. However, as shown in the ending of the poem, she believes that these injustices can be curved balled. The whole poem is set up to prove this point.