Here's a poem that I taught last week, and that shows up in a lot of = anthologies these days: Julia Alvarez's "Dusting." I used it to talk = about how poems use repetition and variation, and how by dividing a poem = into sections and comparing / contrasting the sections (especially how = they say "the same thing"
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I hope-- at least. 3 Works Cited Alvarez, Julia. "Dusting." Angles of Vision: Reading, Writing, and the Study of Literature. Eds. Arthur W. Biddle, and Toby Fulwiler. New York: McGrawHill, Inc., 1992. 721.
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Wrote short introductory essays to five poems as part of "Chapter 15: A Study of Julia Alvarez: Five Poems" ("Queens, 1963"; "Dusting"; "Ironing Their Clothes"; "Sometimes the Words Are so Close," from sonnet sequence, "33," "First Muse") in Poetry: An Introduction, ... "By Accident," A Poem of Her Own: Voices of American...
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I think the central theme of the poem is that the girl wants to be better than her mother. she wants to leave her imprints everywhere while she considers that her mother performs all meaningless jobs and remains anonymous. Poem emphasizes o...
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Julia Alvarez - Questions and Answers at eNotes ... Home > Julia Alvarez Summary & Study Guide > Julia Alvarez Group > Question and Answer ... What is the central theme of Julia Alverez's poem, "The Dusting?"
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julia alvarez talks with robert birnbaum ... Writer Julia Alvarez is the author of a book of essays; five collections of poetry; five books for children; and five books of fiction, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and her latest novel, Saving the World.
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Alexander: I love the way that that poem "Dusting" is both in Museum and then moves over to Thomas and Beulah. ... Alexander: Interestingly, in the years since then there are now at least two novels, by Julia Alvarez and by Edwidge Danticat, that are based on the same incident. And I wonder-you've also written a novel,
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In "Dusting," Julia Alvarez writes about a woman's place in her society. The narrator in the poem attempts to leave her name and fingerprints (her mark) on dusty, dirty surfaces (on the world) while her mother follows cleaning up after her.
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