Ol’Higue

• Dialect Greatc


  It is a dramatic monologue
• Burning myself outline conefire - Simite
• Canefire


  • Burns very quickly
  • Its presence is felt through a pungent sme
• The Ol'Higue compares herself to a canefire


  Implies that she uses a lot of energy quickly and is very visible
• Rhetorical question - Stanzal lines 1-M
• Rhetorical question


  Highlights the scant regards that the Ol'Higue has for the average person. She is throughly annoyed that she has to spend her energy on them.
• Metaphor-singing the sweet song of life
• Personification-hearing the soft, soft call of that pure biced running in new veins
• Imagery afraid of the dying hume
• can fire Canfield and black pudding our references to the Caribbean
• Meiners Protect their children with salt and nice and the Ol’higue is pained by them
• The Or Higue ie atracted the pureness of the babies blood S.Qline 1215
• home your ancient dread? rhetorical question
• Supersticious


  Theme Appearance. Yo. Reality
• Tone


  Arguesentative, Controlling, Defensive
• Mood


  Scenic, footing
• In this poem the use of Creato is totally effective because a Higue is a form figure. The create also adds to the humor at the beginning of the poem. The croole-acids realism and also underscore serious concerns that the poet brings to our attention
• And don't oven talk bout the pain of salt and having to bend these old bones down to count a thousand grains of rice
• Obstacles to access the baby
• Or Higus


  First Person
• Stanza 1 relates to the belief of Of Higuo)- The way she comes out of her skin and becomes a ball of fine che volen to the salt and rice that people sprinkle to protect their babies
• Stanza 2 She exphins bex appeal for newborn babiest "Their Sweet sick, the pure blood in their veins
• Stanza 3 She stop blaming her own actions and starts accusing the mothers she implies that they are afraid of their maderevs thoughts and projects Aheir thoughts on her
• Stupidress-11


  Suggests that the Narrator in fact hated that she can't stop donning baby bland
• Galavanting


  The narrator was being socatio because she is fed up
• Pure blood running in new veins - The babies blood is fresh and pure
• It reminds us of to how humans are we place our faults on other people
• The mothers blame the feeling of wanting to kill their children on l'Higue
• The Ol Higua continues to such the babies blood because she does not want to die and wants to stay alive so shoccotrues doing it
• The final stawea states the need to believe in Supernatural beings to dery cur needs and wants humans states how the mothers project their facwn faulle of wanting to kill their babies onto ofrigue. It states that we blame Supernatural beings instead of being calf accountable
• The Ol'Higue


  A mythical creature in Caribbean folklore, known for being mischievous and quick-witted.
• to a canefire


  The object of comparison, which refers to a fire used to burn sugarcane fields, known for being intense and short-lived.