The information in poems

In the poems that Naomi Shihab Nye, an American-Arabic mix-blooded poet, wrote, 19 Varieties of Gazelle was the response to 9/11 and an excellent show of the Arabic culture. Nye’s father was a Palestinian that went to America before she was born and her mother was a normal American. In her poems, there was a power that influenced people.

In 19 Varieties of Gazelle, she wrote many sentences that were related to death. For example in “My Grandmother in the Star”, she wrote, “It is possible we will not meet again in the earth”, it implied that the death in the event of 9/11. Then, in her poem called, “The Word under the Words”, she said, “our voices are short and would get lost on the journey”, and “My grandmother's eyes say Allah is everywhere, even in death”. This showed her helpless and her unwilling for seeing the death and explaining the death in the event. She would think people are too small to stop these events and she wished things would at least be better. So, this was the response from Nye of the 9/11.

After that, she also showed the information about the Arabic culture in her poem. In her poem “My Father and the Fig Tree”, she wrote her mother’s sentence, “What a dreamer he is. Look how many things he starts and doesn't finish". She firstly didn’t understand her father and thought he’s a dreamer. However after her father lastly found a fig tree that was spontaneous grew in the native land of America, she understood what her father wanted were just the feeling of his hometown and she found the importance of the concept of hometown for Arabic people.

In the mean time, she wrote many poems to show her blood of Arab in her poem “Blood” and implied Arabic culture in writing “Arabic Coffee”. She said, “Like clothes on a line saying you will live long enough to wear me, a motion of faith. There is this, and there is more” in “Arabic Coffee”. She showed the precipitation of culture of Arab. It was a long culture that Arabic culture was deep and serious. Also, she wrote, ”I drive into the country to find sheep, cows, to plead with the air: Who calls anyone civilized? Where can the crying heart graze? What does a true Arab do now?” She explained the civilization of Arab and she explained many other things of the Arabic culture.

To conclude, she was an outstanding poet that wrote deep poems about the serious events and showing the culture of his hometown. She implied lots of information throughout her poems. As a result, I highly recommend people to read her poems for understanding more about her thinking and the culture she showed in her poem.