Use one of the prompts below to respond to the poem:

I think…

I notice…

I predict…

I infer…

I wonder…

I understand…

I connect…

El Olvido

BY JUDITH ORTIZ COFER

It is a dangerous thing

to forget the climate of your birthplace,

to choke out the voices of dead relatives

when in dreams they call you

by your secret name.

It is dangerous

to spurn the clothes you were born to wear

for the sake of fashion; dangerous

to use weapons and sharp instruments

you are not familiar with; dangerous

to disdain the plaster saints

before which your mother kneels

praying with embarrassing fervor

that you survive in the place you have chosen to live:

a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls,

a forgetting place where she fears you will die

of loneliness and exposure.

Jesús, María, y José, she says,

el olvido is a dangerous thing.

*El olvido means forgetfulness in Spanish.

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04-05-2016
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Use one of the prompts below to respond to the poem:

I think…

I notice…

I predict…

I infer…

I wonder…

I understand…

I connect…

El Olvido

BY JUDITH ORTIZ COFER

It is a dangerous thing

to forget the climate of your birthplace,

to choke out the voices of dead relatives

when in dreams they call you

by your secret name.

It is dangerous

to spurn the clothes you were born to wear

for the sake of fashion; dangerous

to use weapons and sharp instruments

you are not familiar with; dangerous

to disdain the plaster saints

before which your mother kneels

praying with embarrassing fervor

that you survive in the place you have chosen to live:

a bare, cold room with no pictures on the walls,

a forgetting place where she fears you will die

of loneliness and exposure.

Jesús, María, y José, she says,

el olvido is a dangerous thing.

*El olvido means forgetfulness in Spanish.

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kelpel197 kelpel197 · Answer 1 · 2016-05-05T11:28:36-04:00

I understand this, I connect with it also because it relates to what parents think or tell children, parents don't want them to forget their birthplace, that makess them forget who they are, they don't want us to play with sharp items, it makes them think we are going to hurt ourselves. They don't want us to forget our dead relatives, it makes us remember their legacy. They don't want us to forget our Christianity, and they never want our life to be boring and alone. Hope this helped you with this prompt.