The Ogre of Kilchoff
The Ogre of Kilchoff – – Born in 1973 in Amman, Jordan, her parents were Palestinian refugees who immigrated to Brooklyn, New York City when she was only 5yrs old
– There she had a cosmopolitan but challenging upbringing, maturing in the diverse but economically undernourished area
– She was encompassed by people of various minority groups including Puerto Ricans, Afro-Americans, Dominicans and Haitians
– This mixture of ethnic groups, she describes to be “an integral part of the American fabric but have been all frayed
– ” These experiences may explain Hammad’s deep want to transcend cultural and religious barriers also to unify different people and groups through her poems
– Montoya purposefully implements the Spanish language to charge the lines using a message that is certainly more robust on the reader
– The lines are short and they also roll in the tongue just like lyrics from a song
– The story told inside poem could be the conflict he faces returning to the United States after fighting inside the Korean War
– The story told is but one which includes manifested commonly among war veterans
– One where a person goes from hero to zero from getting lured by alcohol and drugs after having a traumatizing experience
– This poem mixes the languages of Spanish and English easily and that is why Jose Montoya is such a disciplined bilingual poet
– The word “rage,” which sums up the entire message from the poem, appears eight times across just nineteen lines – that is a form of defiance alone, considering that the word is harsh and awkward to pronounce
– (Just say it loud: RAYdjuh
– ) More importantly, it’s also the initial word in the poem to interrupt the pattern of emphasizing every second syllable, thereby flipping a literary birdie for the implied tick-tock of time
– Check out the first stanza:
The relationship soon ended and I was an absolute mess. I had my heart crushed, and did start to write. I wrote in order to stay centered in the midst of the emotional turmoil. I remember walking by way of a food store and in a catatonic state, seeing the shades of all the so-called products but it not necessarily making any sense. I wrote about my pain.
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