But even the first glimpse of leg out of the car tells me it is Dee. Her feet were always neat looking, as if God himself had shaped them with a certain style.
She is jealous of Dee. She believes Dee is perfect and compares her to Maggie who isn’t as smart as Dee.
The drone’s buzzing sound,the roar of an F-16,the screams of bombs falling on houses,on fields, and on bodies,of rockets flying away—rid my small ear canal of them all.
This represents a dramatic shift from the first part of the poem. Here, the speaker is stuck in a war zone. The life they once had of hearing birds chirping in their backyard no longer exists; instead, all they hear is the buzzing of the drones, the screams, and the rockets.
When you open my ear, touch itgently.My mother’s voice lingers somewhere inside.Her voice is the echo that helps recover my equilibrium
The speaker seems to be remembering their childhood. They are reminiscing a memory of their mother who has passed. Hearing their mother's voice grounds them.
For time’s deft fingers scroll my brow
I feel that the speaker is regretting not chasing her dreams, and now she realizes how much time has passed.
I’m folding up my little dreamsWithin my heart tonight
The speaker calls her dreams "little", but we know that these dreams aren't insignificant as she holds these dreams close to her heart.
don’t sing benna in Sunday school; you mustn’t speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions; don’t eat fruits on the street—flies will follow you; but I don’t sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school; this is how to sew on a button; this is how to make a buttonhole for the button you have just sewed on;
Point of view - a mix of second person yet the girl’s first person memory. The dominant voice is addressing her daughter with “you” statements. The “you” statements are also filtered through the daughter’s perspective as she remembers her mother’s teachings. The mother’s voice is primary, but it’s the girl’s internal experience of these instructions that frames whose point of view it is.
Is there a specific amount of quotes you want us to use? Does it have to be one quote per body paragraph?