Flannel Burp
Need help with a poem!?
The poem is called Dusting.
Each morning I wrote my name
on the dusty cabinet, then crossed
the dining table in scriptm scrawled
in capitals on the back of chairs,
practicing signatures like scales
while Mother followed, squirting
linseed from a burping can
into a crumpled-up flannel.
She erased my fingerprints
from the bookshelf and Rocker,
polished mirrors on the desk
scribbled with my alphabets
My name was swallowed in the towel
with which she jeweled the table tops.
The grain surfaced in the oak
and the pine grew luminous.
But I refused with every mark
to be like her, anonymous.
- Julia Alvarez
~What do you think is significant about the child's writing?
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Don't understand that... could you tell me the question in some easier way so I could understand it? I understand the poem...at least I think I do... It's about a child trying to leave her mark so she could be known to the world while her mom is cleaning away every mark she leaves behind right?
You're on the right track--the child is trying to leave her mark, while her mother is wiping her out. The child , in the last full line, says that she will not be like her mother, anonymous, but instead will make some mark (on the world--she's determined to make a name for herself and not be like her mom). You could dig more with the mom erasing the kid--good stuff there.
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