Juan Felipe's Poem 'Your Name Is X'

This poem called “Your Name is X” by Juan Felipe is not an easy poem to understand all together but sentence by sentence I have some clue what he is trying to say. The first sentence would have many meanings such as the hands are trembling because his hands are so tired of physical labor he can 't control the trembling, or maybe it 's because of old age were his hands tremble just because of the age that he has. Reading the other sentences his hands might be trembling due to the fact that he is scared and just simply trembling uncontrollably from being scared of the unknown lurking in the darkness.

The following sentence gives me the interpretation that the man is scared because you hear unknown echoes from the shadows and the shadow means darkness, evil, and people who mean harm. The sounds are outside of the house where danger is lurking in the shadows which is why he is trembling from fear. The poem says that “X” is your name but, isn 't it everyone 's name X then? The man trembling could be you or could be someone else but it could be you. The echoes as well could be you but it 's not you but, society itself is X or a part of it. The third sentence tells me how bad the neighborhood is that objects are thrown into …show more content…
It could also mean that memories are quickly forgotten just as by cutting of your hair, just a snip and forgotten. The next sentence is rather hard to know its meaning. Posing for death but nude, it sounds strange as if you are defenseless for death. Death shows up but you are nude which in other words defenseless, or vulnerable to others around you and “posing” just says that you are unable to do a thing about it. The other meaning is that death is around you but you are limited by your wealth to relocate to a better spot in a sense stuck until mishaps happen to