Now finally en route to the airport, they enter the vibrant, bustling town of Port-au-Prince. Neon signs, colourful boutiques and...

Tante Atie, for the entire week before Sophie’s departure, leaves for work extremely early and returns extra late. Sophie watches...

Atie and Sophie take a several-hour long journey to La Nouvelle Dame Marie to receive the blessing of Granme Ife for Sophie’s journey...

The news of their imminent separation sullies the joy of the following morning. Atie can neither produce laughter from Sophie nor herself...

Breath, Eyes, Memory was written by Edwidge Danticat and first published in 1994. As a book, it gives a voice to the voiceless women of...

The poem is narrating an interaction between a father and his son, who he has punished for playing in the rain. The little boy feels...

The persona is a negro student (the only one in his class) who is given an assignment by his instructor write a page that comes from within

In this poem, the persona is adulating the incredible power of God. He compares the glory of the Lord to an electric charge present...

The poem alludes to the story of Mary Magdalene in the Bible (John 8:3-11), highlighting themes of religion, violence, sexism and hypocrisy.

The persona seems to be a statesman (or some sort of stakeholder or representative of his country) who is accused of heartbreak by his lover

The persona is a young black male wishing for things he should have already been guaranteed for being a human.

In this poem, the persona seems to addressing a man who has taken a woman's son into a life of crime and gun violence. The history...

The persona is an Englishman who comes to Sabina Park to watch a cricket match between his home team and the West Indies team.

In the poem, the persona is reflecting on the island home of his childhood. He has travelled to many places, but appears to be constantly...

In this 14-lined Italian sonnet, the persona is crossing the Westminister bridge and sees a sight that he never has before.

A man in an airplane on a stopover flight stops momentarily in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The man remarks about Puerto Rico being different...

In this poem, the persona, a father (or mother) seems to be speaking to his son about how people, as well as he himself have changed...

In the poem, we see the threat of an incoming thunderstorm to an African village. The power of this storm is emphasized...

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