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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BROKEN RHYTHMS; IN A MEXICAN LABOR CAMP, by AMANDA MATHEWS CHASE First Line: La golondrina Last Line: New music? Subject(s): Chicanos; Migrant Labor; Music & Musicians; Mexican Americans; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers | |||
"La Golondrina" Thrummed To a lame-stringed guitar. Soft-eyed women With plaited braids At soggy tubs. No gurgling dips In flowing streams To naiad laughter. Metreless brown hands Shaping limp tortillas From grocery flour. Lost the old tuned Spat! Spat! Of pestled corn. Fierce gas flames Scorching frijoles. No long soft glows Of charcoal, fanned To long slow thoughts. Behold that once-schoolmaster, Slight-built and scholarly, Nodding, workworn, Over Spanish poems. Note that carver of images Whose dream-troubled eyes Study with rue His stiff track-mending hands. Broken rhythms All their craft and art. Tune-lost their lives In exile.... America, Can you give them New Music? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOING CROSSLOTS IN VERMONT by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY STOCK AND VERMONT PUNKINS by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY THE LITTLE BOY FOUND, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE CAELICA: 100 by FULKE GREVILLE MONT BLANC; LINES WRITTEN IN THE VALE OF CHAMOUNI by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY TO A SQUIRREL AT KYLE-NA-NO by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE FOUNTAIN by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II |
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