What's the idea of this poem? My mother hangs up the phone
scrapes loose the tears
prepares to tell me
who is dying this time

I speak no Spanish
My mother is the translator
of the dying
My family is always the dying
I say family despite the fact
I have attended none of their funerals

My abuelita was a ricocheting ghost
She died once and I forgot
an entire language

Okay I didn’t forget
it just became inconvenient to remember
Who wants a language for the living anyway?

An inventory of my tongue
yields nothing
that looks like my mother
The resemblance stops at the mouth

She is fluent in a language
I am only ever ugly in
She falls asleep in front of the TV
her show muted
I wonder if in her dreams
I can speak

Benvolio: part, fools! put up your swords; you know not what you do. [beats down their swords.] enter tybalt. tybalt: what! art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? turn thee, benvolio, look upon thy death. benvolio: i do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, or manage it to part these men with me. tybalt: what! drawn, and talk of peace? i hate the word, as i hate hell, all montagues, and thee. have at thee, coward! [they fight.] —romeo and juliet, william shakespeare make an inference about the motivation behind each character’s actions in this earlier scene from the play. why does benvolio beat down their swords? a) he wants to be the one to fight b) he is angry that his servant is quarrelling c) he wants there to be peace why does tybalt draw his sword and fight? a) he is motivated by anger at his servants b) he is motivated by hatred of the montegues c) he is motivated by jealousy of benvolio and the awnser is not agressive. just a reminder to yall who put in the word agressive in alot of questions like mine. as the correct awnser