- Symbolic parallels, little scarves
- Imagery of fig trees
- first person narrative
- taking place in the past
- Arabic- setting/character context
- kind poem, sweet message of father and child
- narrative poem
- figs are a symbol of the author's childhood
Blood
- Arab- setting/character context
- Same author
- About the father again
- Strong connection to nature in this writer's poetry
- narrator looks up to father for guidance in Arab culture
- "What a true Arab would say" a cultural conflict
- News it too much- political conflict/war?
- When is this set, what year?
- "uncivilized" cultural conflict present n a larger scale, maybe in country
- "True Arab" narrator struggling with own identity
The Words Under the Woods
- hyperbole/metaphor- grandma's hands and grapes
- beautiful analogy- "covering my head like cool prayers"
- Grandmother is a loving figure, described as warm
- grandma and connection to faith/religion
- inkling of narrator having a conflict/internal confusion on faith
Two Countries
- loneliness
- loss of love
- comparison between nature and life is a common theme
- emotion through imagery/nature
- skin is new, change etc.
- skin is a metaphor for body and touch
- intimacy?
- missing someone, loss of someone
- skin is directly a human nit just skin
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