Exploratory Poem Break
John Cruz
Professor Keith Feldman
ES 101B: Humanities Methods in Ethnic Studies- Summer 2018
29 May 2018
Exploratory Essay 1: Reading
This exploratory essay will examine Suheir Hammad's poem Break in that it speaks to the Humanities in Ethnic Studies. My central analysis is that Hammad's gripping poem Break is predominately catered to the aspects of the human portion of this assignment. Furthermore, this essay can be viewed as counter-hegemonic. It shows that her stanzas connote a re-enunciation of personality and requires a redistribution of emblematic power. Consequently, this is based on this writer's literary analysis of Hammad's verses. Therefore, this poem exhibits innovative works that point to more grounded potential outcomes for Middle …show more content…
"A woman's hand cups bloodied sand bits scalp ooze to the camera and says this is my family"(Hammad 13). This stanza is quite graphic in nature in that it conveys a woman in the Gaza strip who perhaps, is dealing with the suffering of (e.g., a family member, friend, or someone from that community), that has potentially has died in that environment. In addition, the imagery that this stanza produces one could argue potentially could be speaking to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, that continues to fester as we speak in the Middles East. Hammad masterfully uses hers stanzas to express her individuality as a woman who often times their voices goes unheard in Middle Eastern culture. Something that is worth mentioning is that Hammad was "Born in Jabal Husayn refugee camp in Amman, Jordan, to parents from Lydd (Lydda) and Ramla, Hammad grew up in Brooklyn, New York"(Mary Jane Knopf-Newman 263). Based on this evidence, one can attest to the fact that although Hammad was born in the Middle East, she was raised in Brooklyn, which could have potentially added to some of the flair and outspokenness that we see in her poetry. Now of course this can be open to interpretation, this writer is just merely speculating that people from the East Coast in particular are for most part tend to be a bit more straight forward and extroverted but this piece would have be evaluated on a case by case basis. That is not to say that other people that hail from other parts from the country or other regions of the world are not capable of writing in the prose and having an extroverted personality on the contrary these traits exist in all parts of the world. Another Key point in Hammad's poem Break that resonates with humanities would be the following
Professor Keith Feldman
ES 101B: Humanities Methods in Ethnic Studies- Summer 2018
29 May 2018
Exploratory Essay 1: Reading
This exploratory essay will examine Suheir Hammad's poem Break in that it speaks to the Humanities in Ethnic Studies. My central analysis is that Hammad's gripping poem Break is predominately catered to the aspects of the human portion of this assignment. Furthermore, this essay can be viewed as counter-hegemonic. It shows that her stanzas connote a re-enunciation of personality and requires a redistribution of emblematic power. Consequently, this is based on this writer's literary analysis of Hammad's verses. Therefore, this poem exhibits innovative works that point to more grounded potential outcomes for Middle …show more content…
"A woman's hand cups bloodied sand bits scalp ooze to the camera and says this is my family"(Hammad 13). This stanza is quite graphic in nature in that it conveys a woman in the Gaza strip who perhaps, is dealing with the suffering of (e.g., a family member, friend, or someone from that community), that has potentially has died in that environment. In addition, the imagery that this stanza produces one could argue potentially could be speaking to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, that continues to fester as we speak in the Middles East. Hammad masterfully uses hers stanzas to express her individuality as a woman who often times their voices goes unheard in Middle Eastern culture. Something that is worth mentioning is that Hammad was "Born in Jabal Husayn refugee camp in Amman, Jordan, to parents from Lydd (Lydda) and Ramla, Hammad grew up in Brooklyn, New York"(Mary Jane Knopf-Newman 263). Based on this evidence, one can attest to the fact that although Hammad was born in the Middle East, she was raised in Brooklyn, which could have potentially added to some of the flair and outspokenness that we see in her poetry. Now of course this can be open to interpretation, this writer is just merely speculating that people from the East Coast in particular are for most part tend to be a bit more straight forward and extroverted but this piece would have be evaluated on a case by case basis. That is not to say that other people that hail from other parts from the country or other regions of the world are not capable of writing in the prose and having an extroverted personality on the contrary these traits exist in all parts of the world. Another Key point in Hammad's poem Break that resonates with humanities would be the following