ENGL 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sandra Cisneros, Prose Poetry, Calypso Music
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Jamaica is a pen name for elaine potter richardson. Born is st. johns, antigua in 1949. Girl originally appears in the new yorker in 1978 and became the rst story of at the. Bottom of the river which one her much acclaim. I write about myself for the most part, and about things that have happened to me. Everything i say is true, and everything i say is not true. It is formally and technically prose (it has been called a prose poem ) No established poetic form but there is a rhythm. Form: repetition - this is how you . Diction: benna - calypso music in call-and-response form that was used as a kind of folk communication in antigua and nearby islands. Dasheen - a root vegetable also known as taro. The mother has the power and the daughter is voiceless. Complexity of character, gender, lifestyle, femininity, family, love, resentment, nation, etc. into one paragraph.
