Question:
Anyone hlep me translate or explain these poem?
if you can help me with one poem that find too
i just can't understant poem
1. How to write the great american indian novel
2. Beneath the shadow of the freeway
3. Indian movie, new jersey
4.New world
5. Mexicans begin jogging
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
On "Beneath the shadow of the freeway":
The poem bridges generations: grandmother, mother, daughter. The poem dramatizes the speaker??s efforts to come to terms with the conflicting voices of the two women. The speaker is further conflicted by her role in the family. Grandmother is a ??Queen,?? mother is ??Swift Knight, Fearless Warrior?? who longs to be ??Princess.?? The speaker becomes a ??Scribe??: a translator, an interpreter who does ??light man work.?? These medieval images contrast sharply with that of the freeway, the boundary of the barrio. The poem is both lyrical and discursive. The final stanza shows the speaker envisioning a future (??and in time??) in which three voices are harmonized. How this harmonization is to come about is not discussed.