Sestina Bilingual Poem By Julia Alvarez Summary

Feelings That Break Barriers.

The Poem “Sestina Bilingual” by Julia Alvarez, paraphrase and demonstrate, that both

language English and Spanish can be mirrored of the background of translation and

complication, In adapting to a new land. Julia create her poem in a outwardly form to point out

words for example “English”, “Spanish”, “closed”, and “nombres”. She is not only skillful to

characterize the complications of the transition of one language to another. Also the “sestina

bilingual”, structure demonstrates the stoppage of feeling of being unable to express herself from

one to another language. Afterward Alvarez breakdown the silent in “Bilingual Sestina” poem

when she said“some things aren’t getting said in this snowy,

Blonde, blue-eyed, gum shew

English.” There are some many things that are not said in English when we know two different

languages, two different worlds and many different meaning that won’t translate rapidly in

an appropriate way.

However Alvarez create her poem as one of the most enthusiastic to read

aloud because she is not the only one who is facing this problem aslo there is many people who

feels warm and calm with Spanish or their native language, since Alvarez even said that “like

the touch-sensitive morivivir” which means die and life in other words means reborn to learn a

new language before English and not confusing her though in English because she can feel her

heart beating her Spanish words which were she learned when she was in her childhood.

After all, she wrote the poem in English and some excitement parts in Spanish, where she

describes that Spanish is more easy and faster to learn and on the other hand, English have so

many rules and accents. Spanish feels heartfelt and engaging; encouraging when we speak it and

when we are starting to learn Spanish. “A child again learning the nombres of things you point to

in the world before English turning sol, tierra cielo, luna to vocabulary words sun, earth, sky,

moon.” Two different languages, Spanish and English, are eventually blended together, which

changes your life, either to know both language and to understand them and when to speak it

or

not. Julia Alvarez is really close with her Spanish poem because she felt more comfortable and

calm. English is hard as well and needs to be practice a lot. Like “colores is substitutes for

color”, so you cannot see that much of a difference but still can be confused.

The main reason

why this poem is written in both languages is to demonstrate people that they are not the only

one who is passing through this problem. Even Alvarez reveals in her knowledge that Spanish

can be hard because both language are alike in one hand can be easy and on the other hand can

be hard depend how you learn or what stage of your life your are in . “Even Spanish failed us

when we realized how frail a words when faced with the thing it names”

During the text there it shows the development of both language English and

childhood and renewed life style were she learned how to distinguish one language to another

where Spanish interpretation means many different ways and indications that doesn’t matter

what language you learn before English there is always palabras behinds in English The

metaphor that Alvarez regularly used rationalization of language as some form of water.

Perhaps “the sound of Spanish wash over me like warm island water as I say your soothing

names” between in two language demonstrate that English is colder form of water and spanish

being warmer form, proves that Alvarez native language is more influence to her

while

English is behind to hold. Other important part is that connection of the poem with the author

point of view were she basically described the Spanish or your native language are more likely

strong then English. English we can use as our second language and we can used in any time

any emergency but not to express our feeling we always feels warm and relax to express our

feeling in our own language which can be our native tongue.

All this struggles are alike with different languages that Alvarez face it are comparable

“to the characters in “How The Garcias Lost Their Accents” also show that disappointment of a

new language in which they have to learn and also a new land were they have to live so they

face it to all the problems which is the same with “Bilingual Sestina” clarify that certain words

that has “to say are not getting said”.

The narrator uses a couple of words in Spanish and English to show how you can transition from one language to another.