Assignement-10

Perhaps the world ends here

.Before reading the poem I never thought that the world ends around a “kitchen table”.According to the poem it doesn’t just end there but also starts as it is seen in the first line,showing that the kitchen table is one of the most important elements of life.The author uses lots of metaphores,I can say that the all poem is a metaphor.To continue with the first line she use a metaphor of the kitchen table to represent food and showing how important eating is in human life.Across the poem she continue to illustrate other uses of the kitchen table and its ability to unit people,which is its main power.A kitchen table represents the sweet home where all family members gather and share their daily experiences.It is the place where young people are advised by their parents and tought how to carry of themselves.One line that I liked, was”our dreams drink coffee with us as they put their arms around our children”In this case dreams become members of the family.The author personifies dreams by giving them a character of drinking a coffee with the family at the table.dreams represent our thoughts,our abstract ideas and she gives the characters such as drinking,hugging,demonstrating us how important and powerful thoughts are in our life.Another line that attracted me is”this table has been a house in the rain,an umbrella in the sun”it is a place to hide in times of problems and a place to celebrate in times of victory. This metaphor ilustates again the central role it plays in the family.The table can be both a celebration place and a place to comfort ourselves in times of troubles.As this table is a place where each member of family has”given birth”a place where we eat,sing, cry,give thanks so perhaps the world ends at the kitchen table.This poem  shows the circle of life which is inevitable,it  represents all the stages of life through life examples that occur at the kitchen table.

The Estrangemnet

Mothers are expected to be sweet,loving,firm and they share different values on reasing their children.A child describes always his/her mother as the hero of their world,but in our story it is the opposite.The Estrangement shares the bad relantioship between a mother and a daughter.I don’t want to describe  their complex relantishiop because it is explained very well in the story but something that caught my attention are some lines:when we were children and in need of a mother’s love and care there was no better mother to provide such an ideal entity”-showing that her mother was there for her children and this is also related to the title the Estrangement.Being estranged for people means becoming a stranger and Jamaica’s mother was once connected with her children but after she become a stranger.The other line:” she could see through the thinness of our efforts,she could see through the emptiness of our aspiration showing that she was not proud for her children and she criticised them all the time. I think that all the anger Jamaica felt for her mother is because of this fact.Moving on something that I like in the story is the fact that Jamaica was different from her mother and she tried to gain independence and the most important she tried all the time to be a better mother.