Poem Analysis: Chess By Rosario Castellanos

For our poetry unit, my partner and I were assigned the poem “Chess”. The poem was written by a woman named Rosario Castellanos. She was born in Mexico City, May 25, 1925. Throughout her career as a poet and author, she wrote numerous poetries, essays, and novels. At her time, she was one of the most important Mexican woman writers. Castellanos had the voice to write about the issues of cultural and gender oppression. Though, she died at a young age by committing suicide, but her work still influences others to this day. One example would be her poem “Chess.” The poem is about two friends being compeitive with one another by playing a board game. With a total of three stanzas, my partner and I believe that Castellanos was trying to state, “There is no true winner in war.” In Castellanos’s poem, “Chess,” my partner and I were able to identify the poem’s theme through its metaphors. For example, the author writes, “We’ve been sitting here for centuries, meditating.” Everybody knows that meditating takes weeks or months to complete and the two friends in the poem, never finish their game because they …show more content…
One example for rule is only in the battlefield so it can prevent any damage within outside the field. In addition, the author states, “We set up a board between us./Equally divided into pieces, values, and possible moves.” This indicates that the poem “Chess” has two opposing teams that are fighting against each other, similar to war. The example for a difference between the poem and real life war, is that “Chess” has time to strategize their next move. Castellanos not only writes about a compeitive board game, she is also writing about war in