“Imagine the Angels of Bread” is a poem where the speaker lists the multiple injustices in the world and levels it out so that those suffering can have either justice or those committing the injustices are punished. In the poem’s multiple directions to “imagine,” Martin Espada presents a call to arms to the reader, encouraging them to imagine the wrongdoings and to hopefully act upon them. By getting the readers to imagine such injustice and by having hope that one day the wrongs will be righted, Espada manages to effectively paint a world of darkness full of anger, compassion, vengeance, hopeful visions, reality, and dreams for the future.
In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker tells us of the many abuses within the world and reverses …show more content…
“So may every humiliated mouth, teeth like desecrated headstones, fill with the angels of bread.” (62-64). “Angels of Bread” is a quotation from the Bible, Psalms 78:25, “man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.” Condensed, angels of bread is a miracle. The speaker is urging us to imagine everyone out there still waiting for their miracles and to use our means to help them. These last lines of the poem are the most importance and, coupled with the repeated “this is the year,” the poem acts as an epiphany to anyone who will hear the call to help those in …show more content…
By speaking as someone who apparently hold a distaste for immigrants, the speaker is able to make the reader feel sympathetic to the “spiks of Birdland.” For example, “Once in a while, some creature will treat them decent. They are known as pigeon ladies, renegades, or bleeding-heart Liberals.” (25-27). In this quote the speaker is trying to distance himself from those who treat the immigrants
In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker tells us of the many abuses within the world and reverses …show more content…
“So may every humiliated mouth, teeth like desecrated headstones, fill with the angels of bread.” (62-64). “Angels of Bread” is a quotation from the Bible, Psalms 78:25, “man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.” Condensed, angels of bread is a miracle. The speaker is urging us to imagine everyone out there still waiting for their miracles and to use our means to help them. These last lines of the poem are the most importance and, coupled with the repeated “this is the year,” the poem acts as an epiphany to anyone who will hear the call to help those in …show more content…
By speaking as someone who apparently hold a distaste for immigrants, the speaker is able to make the reader feel sympathetic to the “spiks of Birdland.” For example, “Once in a while, some creature will treat them decent. They are known as pigeon ladies, renegades, or bleeding-heart Liberals.” (25-27). In this quote the speaker is trying to distance himself from those who treat the immigrants