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Sometimes you need someone to help you sort through your ideas. Your plan of action is occasionally tainted by ideas such as "I can't do it" or "I don't know how to get there." So, in this text, the protagonist, LP, has a conversation with GEA, another character in the story. It's an extremely emotional poem from LP's perspective since she's articulating what's making her unhappy with herself. The brief comments by GEA and the extended emotional responses by LP were both really interesting to me throughout this conversation. There is a solution to this dilemma by selecting one of three options: leave it alone, ignore it, or keep working on it until it is solved.

Anzaldua holds high regard for Yemeya. Yemaya is shown in a feminine manner and personified to symbolize a mother and sister. Yemaya is described as an extremely gorgeous woman with specific characteristics that Anzaldua admires. In reality, there is some sexual tension in this poetry. Anzaldua mentions a number of things about Yemaya that reveal her desire, such as when it says your "tongues lick me, let me scream down the marble cliffs of your shoulder." She concludes the poem with "Tonight I shall sleep on your moving breasts. Esta noche sueno contigo." That is, she is fantasizing about being together in secret and dreaming about Yemaya while sleeping.

Gloria's ambitions are depicted in this drawing. One of the primary issues she has addressed in her poetry is that of identity. She has been battling for several things that she considers are discriminatory based on her beliefs. She has been working hard to pursue her aspirations in the queer, Chicana, and writer communities. She is proud of who she is and wishes to share that sense of self-identity to others. I also notice a self-reconstruction drawing, which means that if you don't like something about your values and ambitions, modify it for your own pleasure. When you believe you are being misrepresented by others, it is critical to develop your own identity. You have the right to be yourself in order to achieve happiness.

Anzaldua is uncomfortable with the term "lesbian" or identifying as a lesbian. This is because she believes the term lesbian places her in a group with individuals who do not appreciate her culture or her ideals. She likes to identify as a queer person. She does not want to lose her culture as a Chicana by associating with a group that does not support her true self identity. When most people hear the word lesbian, they envision white middle-aged women. There are no "dyke-feminism" writers either. She aspires to achieve a variety of objectives in the Chicana culture, feminism, and the language topic.

What a surprising turn of events in this story. It begins with the death of a lady's spouse. She sobbed and wailed, but no one showed sympathy as he was remembered.  People thought he deserved to die, and even said he was going to hell. She was better off without him in peoples opinion. Days and months later, she was still upset. One day, she was visited by a ghost. It was her husband's spirit. He approached her. She had missed him so much. The ghost would only arrive at night and make her requests.' He'd ask her to make him meals, bring him beer, and lay out his clothing. She did it a couple times at first. It grew to the point where if she didn't do what the spirit demanded, she'd be physically harmed. She'd try to entice the spirit into her ghost trap, but first she had to be kind to it and pay attention to what she was doing. She mourned her spouse a lot when he died, but she recognized the harsh facts about him when he was living.

The Presence narrates the narrative of a spirit who is not there to harm anybody but to specifically guide Gloria. The spirit was generally there while she was alone, but it was also present when she was writing. The spirit informed her precisely what she needed to write, and it felt very natural. Her fingers would freely flow, and deciding what to write about next wasn't even a consideration. She was initially terrified of it, but subsequently recognized it was a guardian or a helping spirit. She realized this after talking with a friend about a spirit that was following them while being together. They assumed it was her father's spirit, but it didn't appear to be. Her friend has had past encounters with the sprit. It didn't feel inappropriate to communicate with the spirit and allow it to lead and help her.

Anzaldua challenges the core principles that individuals hold today in this brief essay. The system has made it impossible for people to be inspired and to dream large. People are too afraid to express their inner creativity. This process begins on the inside. People generally have feelings and ideas that impact a desired goal they want to accomplish, but it is so difficult to practice in the physical, external world because it appears unreachable and severely criticized. It's also critical to step outside of your comfort zone. If you set your mind to it, everything is achievable. It all comes down to your mindset and the amount of work you put into your objective.

Glora Anzaldua discusses poets, her influences, and speech. Poets are always expected to elicit a reaction from the audience when their poetry is read aloud. There is joy in doing so, but there’s things that bother Anzaldua with this along with many other issues. In her poem, she also explains how poets feel lonely and more sensitive as a result of being obliged to act in particular ways. People may make gender-biased judgements regarding how a poet should speak or what they should talk about. Poets should not feel obligated to write about trendy issues that have no societal significance, but rather to connect with their audience and become a respected person while offering interesting poetry.

What an amazing poem! It started off by Anzaldua introducing herself as sister to the beloved women in third world countries. She adds to her poem their struggles of being naked, in the hot sun, other women in India walking to school, and other marginalized women of asian and queer identities. Colored women must fight together because it is the only way to resist a system designed to keep them silent and trapped in an oppressive environment. Anzaldua advises women to confront the challenges head on so that future women can find it easier to advocate for their voices to be heard.