My poem explication...

I had the poem...

Latin women pray

Judith Ortiz Cofer

In incense sweet churches

They pray in Spanish to an Anglo God

With a Jewish Heritage.

And this Great White Father

Imperturbable in his marble pedestal

Looks down upon his brown daughters

Votive candles shining like lust

In his all seeing eyes

Unmoved by their persistent prayers.

Yet year after year

Before his image they kneel

Margarita Josefina Maria and Isabel

All fervently hoping

That if not omnipotent

At least he be bilingual

I had to explain:

• title
• speaker
• structure
• figurative languages
• imagery
• irony
• theme

I did all these things and I had problems with the speaker and irony and theme. I couldn't tell if the speaker was the author or someone else. She is also latin and she said they prey and not we pray. I said the irony of the poem was the huge gap of Christianity and Latin Women. Like they used brown daughters and Great White Father, Spanish to an Anglo God, and other things to show the gap. And I ended with the theme being that it was a culture/identity. The theme I said was even though there is a huge gap to what you believe in. Its you way of life you can belice anything you want to. And she told me today I got an A!!!