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Mariana Zornosa and Juan Esteban Cardona

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Mariana Zornosa and Juan Esteban Cardona

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4. What bridges, literally and figuratively, are being built through these translations?  What evidence is there for this interpretation? Why are these bridges important?
- LITERALLY the bridges that are being built is the way he changes the language, but FIGURATIVELY, the bridges that are being built are the memories he is charing with her by giving her mom her own identity.

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he is trying to show the changes her mom has gone trough from Cuba to the states by writing in two languages which represents the different cultural lifes. and it's important because it helps them to find their identity and never forget their culture.

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He is building  bridge between his past and his presents and between his american lifestyle and his current situation they are important becaouse it helps them find his identity and not forget about his past and his culture.

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Literally a bridge of language. Figuaratively, he is building a bridge from his mom's life in Cuba to her new life in the U.S.

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Mariana Zornosa and Juan Esteban Cardona

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Mariana Zornosa and Juan Esteban Cardona

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3. What emotions does Richard Blanco express through the use of vivid details? Give specific examples from the poem.
- He decides to be nostalgic and to use some love as emotion, so his mom feels like if she was at home.
"En inglés te he dicho cómo te amo cuando cortas
gladiolas, machacas ajo, enfrías tacitas de dulce de leche encima del mostrador, o cuando tiendes la ropa de noche bajo nuestra luna en suburbia. En inglés" (Richard Blanco 8th stanza).

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Andrés Felipe Quintero, Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

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Andrés Felipe Quintero, Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

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The main bridge that is being built is the one of translation. The culture that is present in the spanish (specially food), isn´t lost in trsnaltion. For example, how can you translate "dulce de leche" if it isn´t present in the cultures that speak english. Building bridges makes people come together, in the way that they might understand different aspects other places and cultures. Even if you don´t know what "dulce de lecche" is. You know that isn´t present where you are and might seek to understand what it is.

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he gives us nostalgia by remebering all the beutifull parts of his old life, he allso express admiration and love as he takes the time and uses allot of details, for example using gladiolas and and dulce de leche that were the things she most liked about cuba and allso they are the things they most miss about this country.

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Nostalgia and love for his mother's culture and past.

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Certain spanish words needed to be in the original language to capture the feeling and the culture behind the word.

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He shows a nostalgic type of emotion by talking about his mom's life in Cuba. This is seen when he says "I have recreated the pueblecito you had to forget".

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He shows imagery and makes the reader feel integrated with the story with a familiar feeling and, if you are latino, you can relate to the actions he does in the poem like "setting cups of dulce de leche."

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Mariana Zornosa and Juan Esteban Cardona

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Mariana Zornosa and Juan Esteban Cardona

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2. Why are some Spanish words in the middle of English stanzas?
- Maybe to put some imagery to his mom or making her nostalgic by saying words they always used when his mom lived with him in Cuba.

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He gives a feeling of nostalgia. Trying to connect with his native land. "I have recreated the pueblecito you had to forget". It is always in the past tense. It always shows a past and tries to express it through imagery.

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Literally, he is doing a bridge between the spanish and english but figuratively, he is showing that language can actually be a barrier because it represents a whole culture and how he has gotten both the cuban and american side. He is also connecting with his mother when translating.

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literally doing a bridge between the language barriers between these two languages by making the stanzas in both languages
Figuratively he is trying to join both cultures an example can be combining spanish and english in the same stanza

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The are some words in spanish that are typical from that language and, even tho there is a word to them in english, it wouldn't be the same.

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He expresses his love towards his mother because he shows everything she does and cares to translate it for her.

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There are some words in spanish that can't be translated to english. Mostly personal nouns/ names that are from the spanish speaking culture with no translation.

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It's because they are nouns in spanish and most are colloquialisms. Also they add contrast to the two cultures

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There are certain words he does not want to translate because he learned them in spanish and he could easily translate them, but it just looses the meaning and esance

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because he wants to make his mom feel at home by speaking her language an example of this can be "i have recreated the pueblecito you had to forget"

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Andrés Felipe Quintero, Juan Sebastian Gonzalez

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Some of the words that are hard to translate from their context. So, having the spanish makes the feeling behind the word stay, instead of getting lost in translation.

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well literally it is being translated the whole text but figurative it is being translated

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Mariana Zornosa and Juan Esteban Cardona

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Mariana Zornosa and Juan Esteban Cardona

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1.What is being "translated" in this poem, both literally and figuratively?
- Basically what is being translated LITERALLY is the language English to Spanish. But what is being translated FIGURATIVELY is the way the poet is translating to his mom that went to the US for a better life.

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to show the meaning of both languages and to write in his mothers native language for her to understand

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His mothers story and the poetic aspects of his life

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Literally: he's translating it from english to spanish.
Figuratively: he's translating his mother's past into their present situation.

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Literally, what is being translated is him trying to review what he has done.  He is translating his experience in a foreign territory.
Figuratively, it is translating something from a foreign language to the native language of whoever he is talking to. Making a stronger connection between them.

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Literally, all the words he is saying are being translated, except some words in Spanish that he writes them how they are. Figuratively, he is translating memories from her mother when she was in Cuba and when she went to the U.S.

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It is literally translating the whole poem. Figuratively, it is translating  what he goes through as being a cuban who has lived his whole life in the US, to make a stronger connection with her.

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Literally he is translating what he says in english to spanish and keep doing it the whole poem, but he figuratively he is expressing the two different cultures he has and hes two points of view, also he is expressing his love to her mom by writing in spanish so she could read it and understandt it.