I Am Offering This Poem By Jimmy Santiago Baca

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The idea that sustainability is possible only if love is present on the inside is a common theme through many stories and poems. "I Am Offering This Poem" written by Jimmy Santiago Baca bears no exception. Baca assures the reader that the love inside can nourish, protect, and sustain with his efforts at hand. There are several examples of figurative language in the poem that represent this idea.
One of the best ways to portray that you care for someone else is to keep them healthy. Proper nourishment is a component of health that is represented through feeding another person. “so it is a pot full of yellow corn” (Baca line 9). The most outstanding representation of nourishment in Baca’s poem is his metaphoric comparison of love to a pot of
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