Lost Sister Poem Cathy Song. In the poem “lost sister,” cathy song explores the lives of two generations of chinese women,. Song's lost sister cathy songs poem lost sister explores the lives of two generations of chinese women.
One generation chooses to leave china and begin a new life in america. Cathy song was born and raised in hawaii however her asian roots influence many of her poems including “lost sister”. The analysis of the young girl in “lost sister” is no doubt an effort to link cathy song’s two worlds together.
The other chose to remain in china and experience her culture the way it. Both poems are very different from each other, yet they share something in. This poem is about a chinese woman who is facing the difficult reality of being a chinese immigrant.
Lost sister by cathy song. Cathy song again hints at an ambiguous wilderness where “loneliness can strangulate like jungle vines.”i believe this wilderness is an analogy to the angst chinese women feel in their everyday lives in china. To move freely was a.
He sings and the dishes disappear. The other chose to remain in china and experience her culture the way it was meant to be. The poem “lost sister,” by cathy song examines the zone and dilemma of a woman being lost between two cultures.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy worldcat. Fiction and poetry by women (edited with juliet kono). In poems that have been compared by critics to the muted tints of watercolor paintings, song has consistently created a world rich with narrative and imagery.
It is his hundredth dragonfly. Psa's chapbook program publishes each winner's work as a gorgeous chapbook, allowing new voices to reach new audiences. The poem demonstrates how the author feels psychologically lost.
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