Summary Of On Not Stealing The Blue Estuaries

Julia Alvarez conveys the speaker’s discoveries through her use of imagery in “On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s ‘The Blue Estuaries’”. Throughout the poem, Alvarez uses vivid imagery to describe the swans on the lake that are on the cover of the book. As a result of these descriptions, the speaker discovers a poet, her book, and ultimately not to steal the book. The speaker begins the poem by stating that the book surprised them on the shelf at the bookstore.

In the poem, “On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries”, by Sulia Alvarez conveys the speaker's discoveries by using poetic devices such as imagery, tone and selection of detail. Alvarez uses words like “darkened” and “doubts” to further convey the speaker's discoveries.

The books and reading materials we read and encounter can have an impact in our education and in who we are. This is because our ideas, beliefs, imaginations and way of thinking can change based off how we react to the material. In Julia Alvarez’s poem “On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries” the author uses various literary devices, such as tone, imagery and selection of detail to convey the speaker’s intriguing and suspenseful discoveries of her voice and her talents.

In “The Miss Dennis School of Writing”, the author Steinbach wants the reader to understand her experience as she explains it through her encounters with Miss Dennis and the way of writing through description. The important part taken from Steinbach’s essay is that because of Miss Dennis taught her good descriptive writing, she received both a writing lesson and a life lesson, resulting in Steinbach being a successful writer. Steinbach shows her acquired lessons by using description in the essay to describe how she sees Miss Dennis and says “And now, reading over these few observations, I think of Miss Dennis. But not with sadness. Actually, thinking of Miss Dennis makes me smile. I think of her and see, with marked clarity, a small, compact woman, with apricot-colored hair,” Miss Dennis says to a young girl,

Imagery helps you “see” the poem better, and picture things in your mind. In the second stanza it says, “In the bottoms of our shoes, / they [poems] are sleeping. They are the shadows / drifting across our ceilings the moment / before we wake up. What we have to do / is live in a way that lets us find them.” You could almost picture shadows across ceilings, poems “hiding,” someone “looking for poems,” or even someone trying to make sense of a poem.

Ten year after her second marriage happiness surprised Julia, she knew the man who  became her third husband. The true companero for the women she had become.    The “first Muse” by Julia Alvarez show us that we have to overcome our obstacle in  order to get successful. Julia had to deal with a dictatorship and bullying at her school but that  didn’t stop

Because the way she describes it makes you feel like your right there, knowing the feeling without actually seeing the item. Capturing the reader’s attention to detail bring the scenery closer to understanding and wanting to know more.

Many books are often illustrated to be reflected on the story. The illustrations created by famous artists intend to bring the books to life. ‘John Wooden famously said, ‘It is the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen’.” This quote describes many of the aspects that occur throughout Ovid and Auden’s writings.

Blanca Varela receives several prestigious awards as a result of her work being considered as surrealistic and radical, a recurring hem with many poets from Peru at the time. It is this unique form of expression that earns her the exposure making her one of the leading voices of Lain America. The style in which she writers offers both a literal message to be read and comprehended easily, as well as, a figurative message which can imply a number of different things. Moreover, she paints specific pictures to help the reader truly conceptualize what she is trying to say. “Secreto de Familia” or “Family Secret” by Blanca Varela demonstrates her use of several meaningful and insightful poetic elements in order to voice an opinion or convey a

?The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? has some immaculate imagery. T.S. Eliot uses figurative diction to create almost cinematic images in the readers mind, almost like a memory of their own. The imagery creates an incredible mood

By adding all those details, The readers are more likely to get hooked. Reading “a meat pie made with rancid butter” is more captivating than “a pie”. By just saying “a pie”, it leaves the reader with questions, and the wording is not as interesting. Details give the reader a feeling as if they were there in that moment. By saying “his veins swelled, and the moisture broke out on his forehead” it gives the reader a more visual picture, which is better because you are explaining your image through words; therefore, you must be as thorough as possible, so the reader can get a picture of your image through your writing.

There is a lot of imagery included in the poem. Throughout the poem I was able to visualize what the author descriptively shared. The poem includes descriptions of where the grandmother lives in the Caribbean, where the granddaughter lives with the winter weather, and how heaven looks through the eyes of the granddaughter’s comparison to winter.

Through the eyes of an innocent child in her poem “Mami and Gauguin”, Julia Alvarez subverts the male gaze by redirecting it into ambition for freedom.

Byron appeals to the reader’s senses by illustrating the narrator’s life. As the reader pictures the setting as the poem commences, she senses the vacancy in the area and hears the weeping in the distance. When describing the pasty flesh, a picture is pieced together in the reader’s thoughts of the devastating event, and this vivid image corresponds with the icy, dull world. The lack of color on his beloved’s cheek suggests that she no longer possesses the love and fervor she once had for him. When the droplets of water are mentioned, one may experience traces of the frosty condensation upon her skin as well; this source of imagery offers realism and submerges the reader into the fabricated tale that the story unleashes. In spite of alarming poems, Byron often constructs beautiful images with his superb articulation and imagery.

On a brisk night of November the 7th Viento y Agua was host to Poetry Bleeding. This was the fifth installment of the monthly poetry readings. The readers for this month seemed to have extensive knowledge of poetry, which was nice because the poetry readings I have seen in the past have not had this amount of star power. Overall I enjoyed my experience at Viento y Agua and appreciated the complex poetry.