Analyzing Naomi Shihab Nye's Poem 'Making A Fist'
“Making a Fist”
“Making a Fist” is lyric poem by: Naomi Shihab Nye, in her poem she describes the speaker as an adult woman. The woman is reflecting on her past memories of her experiences with her mother, as a young seven-year-old girl.
The main characters are the speaker who is an adult woman reflecting on herself as the seven-year-old girl, asking her mother questions about dying. The character felt like she was going to die during a car trip traveling north of Tampico (a seaport in eastern Mexico). The girl askes her mother to explain, “how do you tell when you are going to die?” her mother said, “you know when you're dying, if you can no longer make a fist.”
The author uses a few literary devices to give the readers a more descriptive
“Making a Fist” is lyric poem by: Naomi Shihab Nye, in her poem she describes the speaker as an adult woman. The woman is reflecting on her past memories of her experiences with her mother, as a young seven-year-old girl.
The main characters are the speaker who is an adult woman reflecting on herself as the seven-year-old girl, asking her mother questions about dying. The character felt like she was going to die during a car trip traveling north of Tampico (a seaport in eastern Mexico). The girl askes her mother to explain, “how do you tell when you are going to die?” her mother said, “you know when you're dying, if you can no longer make a fist.”
The author uses a few literary devices to give the readers a more descriptive