Our Poem Analysis by Julissa Mendoza https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf What are some literary devices that we notice? en-us 2021-04-25 22:54:49 UTC 2021-04-27 23:59:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466808666 There is a lot of dualities and repetition used in this poem. Especially the opening line "For those of us" is repeated often. This opens a sense of collective, but when paired with the the dualities, it expresses a sense of being in the middle/margins in life. In the first stanza talking about "love in doorways coming and going". A doorway is such a small space that connects different rooms/worlds together. It's like the narrator is trying to comfort someone with anxiety or an existential crisis. ]]> 2021-04-27 23:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466808666 A Litany for Survival https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466809625 makes me imagine somebody like a street urchin, somebody kind of adrift and on the edge of ruin. Maybe a sex worker who "loves" professionally "in doorways in the hours between dawns" (which is all hours) in order to put bread in her child's mouth

]]> 2021-04-27 23:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466809625 Litany https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466809759 A litany is a type of religious prayer that is led by a leader, with sections of repetition meant for the congregation to join in. The use of the repeated phrase "We were never meant to survive" resembles this type of usage.

]]> 2021-04-27 23:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466809759 Repetition https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466810175 The repetition of the phrase "we are afraid" demonstrates the uncertainty that comfort provides: a temporary relief away from pain for the speaker and those like the speaker.]]> 2021-04-27 23:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466810175 Simile gordonpapalias1 https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466810875 "who were imprinted with fear
like a faint line in the center of our foreheads"
]]> 2021-04-27 23:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466810875 Symbol https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466812100 There's a lot of symbolism that evokes people being caught at boundaries, unable to move. "shoreline," "love in doorways," etc. The third stanza also ping pongs between extreme states of having and lacking.]]> 2021-04-27 23:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466812100 camachoa5 https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466812136 The imagery and its overall theme provide the reader with a lot of hope and optimism. 
A call to resistance.]]> 2021-04-27 23:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/delgadojulissa/bvcfzyv7wvo8w1nf/wish/1466812136