When I Was Puerto Rican
What metaphors are used in When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago?
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“it is the soul of a person that writes poetry”
A discussion of what the soul is begins innocuously enough with stuff like it being the part of a person that is immortal, but quickly movies to this beautifully wrought expression that captures the essence of the soul through metaphor.