Analysis Of The Poem 'My Wicked Ways'

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Lost in Love
Love is an emotion shared among humanity. Humans become emotional when they are denied love. Love helps individuals function and without it, humans would not be able to deal with their emotions. An individual’s personality is destroyed in a relationship where there is a lack of love. A lack of love in a relationship destroys an individual’s personality by generating anger, which coherently leads to rebellion, resulting in the individual to become desperate.
A shortage of love in relationships destroys an individual’s personality by generating anger. The state of feeling angry is not healthy while in a relationship, as it alters the individual’s disposition. The individual will feel hatred toward the other or their self while feeling angry. The poem My Wicked Wicked Ways demonstrates how a lack of love destroys a wife’s personality when the speaker states, The woman, my father knows, is not here/My mother will get very mad/Her face will turn red/and she will throw one shoe (Cisneros 185). The husband is being unfaithful to his wife, which provokes the wife to become very mad. The wife expresses herself in anger after finding out her husband is no longer utterly in love with her. The quote is relevant to the claim as it shows how the …show more content…

When an individual is not given the amount of love desired it sends the individual on a rebellious path. The poem Behind Grandma’s House illustrates a child being rebellious when the child kicks over trash cans/flicked rocks at cats/kicked fences/shooed pigeons/frightened ants with a stream of piss (Soto 193). The child was not receiving enough attention from the grandmother, so the child acted obnoxiously. If the grandmother had shown the child more attention, then the child would not act unpleasant because the child would feel loved. Children who are not showed love is prone to become

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