The Tender Tree Analysis
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Strength for Freedom is a poetry anthology written by Margarita Engle that has won multiple awards including the Newberry Award and the 2009 Américas Award. According to her website, she is the first Latino to have ever been awarded the Newberry. With such narrative verse that she writes in, it is hard for some to actually accept this style as poetry. According to Hintz and Tribunella, “the two terms (verse and poetry) are synonyms and simply mean the opposite of prose” (p. 89). The Surrender Tree is historical fiction written in blank verse and tells the story of Cuba’s freedom. No poem is longer than two pages and are typically written with short sentences. One of my favorite poems is on p. 69 (check