i want to be a man

wow, totally caught me off guard, i missed the part that julia de burgos wrote all of these poems and i totally thought it was a guy. wow. but anyway that makes it more interesting. Ummmm so basically julia de burgos was an avid supporter and fighter for women's rights. when i learned that i thought is was weird because i felt that she was treating women like objects in her poems and pentachrome is about wanting to be a man. This is all very interesting though because now looking back it seems that she is commenting and criticizing the fact that in history women aren't even considered and only men were important. Even in this class that shines through because we only read men for a while.
burgos would have been so strong and able to do anyhting she wanted and respected if she were a man. Nothing would have stood in her way like Don Quijote the great hero. However because she was a woman and everyhting was against her it made her even stronger and more impressive. Go julia, good job

Borges

so the last couple nights i've been reading short stories by borges. They are so insane. I first read the lottery of babylon. This was interesting after reading the poem "the election". In the poem it talks about the babylonian system. In the short story although its from a different time it is about the same thing. Both are about randomness.
In the poem it is interesting because it trakes something like an election that should be the opposite of random but rather based on evidence and choice and says it was completely random.
The short story is about how the Babylonians started with a normal lottery but then it progressed to become even less out of the control of people. With each new drawing there was a chain of new drawing to make sure that every possible outcome was available. In a sense it was possible to just keep drawing for ever. This goes beyond just a simple drawing.
When this is applied to the poem, to me, it is saying that the winner of the election was not only drawn, but it was a complicated series of fates that led him to be drawn.
This is hard to write down and i realize my point doesn't seem that profound but i guess what i am trying to say is there is only one way things work out and there is a series of random events and decisions that lead up to them. Therefore the same man would be elected no matter what if you think about it in terms of fate.

This reminds me also of that vallejo poem " a black stone lying on a white stone"
The idea that he knows he is going to die and he has already seen it to me reflects a theme of fate. There is no option that he will die in paris but according to borges there would be a series of drawings deciding the date the time the method and etc. I'm not sure where i am going with this really, i suppose i am just posing ideas and questions... regardless it's interesting to me

poetics and elevations

It seems to me that Mozart could be an angel because of his artistic skill. The Poem we read portrays this nicely. He would be the youngest angel, because while all other angels have been around since the creation of the heavens, they would have no choice but to accept mozart due to his prowess. Mozart could do what no other man could do and because of that he rose above man and became heavenly.
This goes very nicely with Marti's opposite of ornate and rhetoric poem saying that expressing yourself through an artistic avenue is the only way to achieve success, everyone else falls to the earth and is destroyed as a mortal.

In light of this i have written a haiku

if angels are harmony
and sing all day long
hendrix must be in heaven