After reading more poems and class discussions, I found that one of the main and important part in 19 Varieties of Gazelle is Nye’s family. I love two of her poems called My Father and The Figtree and The Words Under the Words. I think for Nye her family is the most important part in her life, and probably because of that she never forgot to mention her family throughout her poems. I loved this poem My Father and the Figtree. This poem is related especially to her father’s background and culture. It tells us that her father is still connected to his past cultural life. As you read this poem it creates a picture in your mind, and it becomes more interesting to read. Her father didn’t really tell her in words that he loved figs. Nye found out by listening to his stories. I think her father always talked about figs, because he wanted to feel like he was in his homeland. Nye wrote, “I’m talking about a fig straight from the earth --- gift of Allah!”. Her father believed that figs are the gift of God, so getting figs for him was like getting gifts from God. Figs were God’s blessing for him. So that also tells us that her father was very religious. Her father was like a dreamer, he didn’t finish the work that he ever started. He always wanted figs, but never planted them. But I think he had faith in himself, that’s why he finally gets a figtree with the sweetest figs in the world and felt like his homeland. So I would say her father was very faithful, patient, determined, innocent, and was very dedicated to the figtree. And with all that he finally gets what he wanted or I would say what he deserved.
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