First response to 19 varieties of Gazelle

The first thing I would like to say about this poetry is that it’s a type of poetry that can be read by young’s and adults both. I don’t read poetry, but after reading this book, I felt like I read someone’s heart. It was so good to read a book like this. This is a fantastic book in its own way and a great introduction to the talent and skills of Naomi Shihab Nye. I think she is a great poet. I think her poems have a lot of simplicity and honesty in it. I think what she is basically telling us through this poetry is about the emotions that all of us feel. I think her heart has been touched so much by the Middle East and all the pain that she and her family had to go through. After all that, I think she is still trying to tell the people, that there is still love and we should share it with others. I loved her poems where she talked about figs and olives. One of her poems called the Biography Of An Armenian Schoolgirl is one of my favorite poems. In this poem she talked about her life when she was a schoolgirl. In this poem she is telling us that how she was learning new things everyday. In this poem Nye wrote, “What is the history of Europe to us if we cannot choose our own husbands? ”.   I think I can exactly understand this situation, because being from a different country, I have seen these strict cultured rules being forced on others. These rules, that you can’t choose your husband according to you, are still being used. By reading this poem, it’s also telling me that Nye school life probably been tougher. She wrote, “They pull our hair back and examine our nails”. So, I think she was punished in the school, for not being interested in the subject that her teachers wanted her to learn, but she wanted to learn something else. So I think what she is basically telling us through this poem is that you want to do something else, but something different happen. It probably doesn’t always go according to our wishes. I think poem is like a whole story of an unfortunate life that doesn’t go according to us. Overall, I would say that this poetry is great, and teaches a lot of lesson of life.