Homework Help: Literature

Posted by mysterychicken on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 5:13pm.

I really really need help with this, PLEASE.

I need to list the nouns, verbs, and adjectives that establish and shape the mood of the poeom El Olvido by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Please, just give me some examples

Thanks
-MC

Literature - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 5:30pm
Taking the first four lines:

dangerous -- adj.
forget -- v.
climate -- n.
birthplace -- n.
choke -- v.
voices -- n.
dead -- adj.
relatives -- n.

It is a dangerous thing
to forget the climate of
your birthplace; to choke out
the voices of the dead relatives when
in dreams thet call you by
your secret name; dangerous
to spurn the clothes you were
born to wear for the sake of fashion;
to use weapons and sharp instruments you
are not familiar with; dangerous
to disdain the plaster saints before
wich your mother kneels praying for you with
embarassing fervor that you survive in
the place you have chosen to live; a costly,
bare and elegant room with no pictures
on the walls: a forgetting place where
she fears you might die of exposure.
Jesús , María y José.
El olvido is a dangerous thing.
Literature - GuruBlue, Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 5:31pm
It is dangerous (adjective repeated several times....obviously an important word)
to spurn
to use
to disdain
survive
to live:

These are all infinitives...
repetitive to emphasize meaning.

Check out this site
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080324120220AAJLBr2
Literature - drwls, Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 5:36pm
Have you read the poem and visited
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080310075527AA1LRj8
?
You should get some good ideas there, and find plenty of mood-shaping words.

The words "choke", "forgetting" and "plaster saints" are among the mood-shaping words for me.

Thank you for introducing me to this author. I enjoyed that poem very much.

It made me recall the great lyrics of the songs "A Boy Like That" and "America" from "West Side Story"
Literature - mysterychicken, Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 5:48pm
Thanks to all of you. This really helped! Happy Holidays =)

-MC

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