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,

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

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