English, 26.08.2019 02:00 tasjanayroberts

Idon't understand this poem, and i read it about 5 times.
making a fist for the first time, on the road north of tampico i felt the life sliding out of me a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear i was seven, i lay in the car watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass my stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin how do you know if you are going to die? " i begged my mother we had been traveling for days with strange confidence she answered "when you can no longer make a fist." years later i smile to think of that journey the borders we must cross separatley, stamped with our umaswerable woes i who did not die, who am still living, still lying in the backseat behind all my questions
clenching and opening one small hand.

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Nye describes her experience being comforted by her mother when she was sick. Her mother told her she was not dying as long as she still had the strength to make a fist. Nye then writes that she is still comforted by this thought.

The poem has several devices such as:

Allusion it can be applied because it refers to a past historical event.
Imagery because it describes in detail the palm trees. Among other things.

The tone is nostalgic because she is looking back on she was traveling but she also uses a tone of pride because she survived the journey and she can still make her hand into a fist .

Answer from: Gennn43

Firstly, I think you may have written a word wrong "umaswerable", and I'd like to know what word actually should be there? Secondly, I'm not that familiar with that part of the world (Mexico), but from the poem I would say they were on the run (trying to flee their country) or just were living in the car, because they didn't have enough money. Both could be true, the first one at the beginning and the second one after. The boy clearly suffered some sort of trauma (at age 7) and may even have lost a hand ("one small hand") and they have had a rough time since ("umasw... woes").

Answer from: Quest

glamis thou art, and cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promis'd; yet do i fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition; but without the illness should attend it. what thou wouldst highly, that wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, and yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great glamis, that which cries, "thus thou must do, if thou have it: and that which rather thou dost fear to do than wishest should be undone." hie thee hither, that i may pour my spirits in thine ear; and chastise with the valor of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round, which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crown'd withal.

he lacks ambition.

he is hesitant.

he lacks courage.

he has moral scruples.

Answer from: Quest

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

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