11/18/2023 0 Comments Julia alvarez poems![]() ![]() After graduating college, Alvarez became a traveling teacher. She received a degree in writing and went on to graduate school at Syracuse University in New York. Julia Alvarez went on to attend Middlebury College in Vermont. The majority of her writings are heavily influenced by her childhood and the cultural shock she had to endure. She absorbed the English language and dreamed of becoming a writer. She started reading and soon discovered her passion for books. As a result, Alvarez forced herself to find a hobby to distract her from her loneliness. Her peers taunted her for not flawlessly speaking English. Upon arriving in America, Alvarez immediately felt like an outcast. Growing up in the Dominican, Alvarez was a vivacious girl, however, she did not focus much on school much to her parent’s dismay. The family arrived back in Queens, New York in the 1960’s. Alvarez became involved in a discovered plan to overthrow the dictator which forced the family to hurriedly flee the country. ![]() The Alvarez family was wealthy and known within the community. Shortly after her birth, her parents moved back to their native Dominican Republic where the family lived until Julia was ten years old. Julia Alvarez was born March 27th, 1950 in New York City. Everyone around her was blonde haired and blue eyed, much like the storybook character, Heidi.Ĭlick to access 2u6yUBf2KxxqZFTuijTphv3Ck6IVSCGeyNpjGFjkewBUx345.pdf Posted on SeptemSeptemby faso0044 Leave a comment Exile In this line, Alvarez makes us aware of how different living in America was. “And by his side a girl who looked like Heidi in my storybook waded in colored plastic.” (Exile, lines 55-56) One of my favorites is from her poem Exile. She saw her Dominican nationality fading away into an American identity.Īlvarez also makes good use of similes in her work. This line gives an example of Alvarez’s daily struggle as a Dominican immigrant in 1960s New York. I like that aspect of her poetry because it makes it much more interesting to read. The use of free verse makes her poems seem more like stories than poetry. By year’s end, a sprinkler waving like a flag on our mowed lawn, we were blended into the block, owned our own mock Tudor house.” (Queens, 1963, lines 1-7)įree verse uses meter to make it sound poetic. ![]() “Everyone seemed more American than we, newly arrived, foreign dirt still on our soles. Meaning that the end of the lines do not rhyme. The majority of Alvarez’s poems are formatted in free verse. Having someone who is so different from me also be so relatable to me in multiple ways is something that I appreciated from reading Alvarez’s poetry. I relate to that a lot because I often feel as if my parents want me to be a certain way and I relate to wanting to get out from underneath that. She talks about dealing with her family’s and society’s pressures on her and how she wants to get out from underneath their views, like in her poem Dusting. She is able to be vulnerable without seeming weak. In the poems that I studied, Alvarez is extremely open about her struggles and her family life. Alvarez is able to be relatable to people all across the board even though her story is so unique. Between moving schools and states frequently, I can relate to stepping out of your comfort zone and feeling like an outcast. Even though I have never been in a situation where I have had to flee a country, I have been the new girl in quite a few situations. Even as someone who has never been and never will be a minority, I still can relate to her poems which I think is really cool. In her housekeeping poems, she relates to girls who are itching to get out from their parents oppressing molds. She writes about fitting in, stepping out of her comfort zone, and daily struggles of a teen. Julia Alvarez lived out a unique story but is still able to relate to minorities in the 1960s and today. ![]()
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