Four raggedy excuses planted by the city. Four who do not belong here but are here. Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine. “They are the only ones who understand me. O’Malley, “A Ride Down Mango Street,” The English Journal, December 1997. This is exactly how the narrative style of Mango Street works.” We hope to express significant meaning and feeling through our words we want our poems to make people think’. In speaking of poetry, Georgia Heard pointed out that ‘beautiful music and rhythm alone do not make a poem. “Cisneros’ writing is poetry, and her characters speak a kind of poetic dialogue that I haven’t heard since Shakespeare moved out of the hood. Even when I finally put the book back on my shelf, I just couldn’t get that voice out of my head. Suddenly, Cisneros’ narrator, Esperanza, jumped out from somewhere between the pages, grabbed me tight, shook me hard, and wouldn’t let go. I read the whole book in two hours and had to read it again.
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