9.3.11

"Exile" by Julia Alvarez


This was kind of a mixture of what I like about poetry and what I do not. To start with, I like the set of metaphors the author used, as I really like metaphors. But on the other hand, I do not really like narrative poetry. I mean, it is nice and I think it can be very good, but I still cannot find a way to look at the verses and not want to put them all together as in prose, because my mind thinks that either way, they continue being the exact same thing. My mind considers that there can be more "poetic" phrases or paragraphs, also full of metaphors in a novel, but that is interpretation, as everything.

But aside all of that, I think Exile is a very well done image of what the title wants to say. To imagine this girl plunging into the sea, going away from the land she knows and into the unknown, but still with faith, is a very clear image for me. And the way she puts her point of view as a child, a child who could just follow his dad to his "holiday in the beach", can bring us many thoughts, like what if she was older and had the possibility to choose? Or, what if she had fought to stay and not only go away? What will she do in the new and unknown place?

I believe this poem really makes us project ourselves in it, asking and answering ourselves, to what could happen to the mirror we see in this girl.

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