This is a short Analysis of the poem Ass by Sandra Cisneros for David.
POEM:
My Michelangelo!
What Bernini could compare?
Could the Borghese estate compete?
Could the Medici's famed aesthete
produce as excellent and sweet
as this famous derriere.
Did I say derriere?
Derriere too dainty,
Buttocks much too bawdy,
Cheeks so childishly petite,
Buns, impudently funny,
Rear end smacking of collusion.
Ah misnomered beauty,
Long suffering
butt of jokes,
object of derision,
pomegranate and apple
hath not such tempting
allure to me
as your hypnotic
anatomy.
Then
am I victim
of your spell,
bound since mine eyes
did first espy
that paradise of symmetry.
And like Pygmalion transfixed,
who sincere believed
desire could unfix
that alabaster chastity,
grieved the enchantment
of those small cruel hips -
those hard twin bones -
that house such enormous
happiness.
About Sandra Cisneros:
Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican-American essayist. She is best known for her first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her resulting short story accumulation Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work explores different avenues regarding abstract structures and researches developing subject positions, which Cisneros herself credits to experiencing childhood in a setting of social hybridity and financial imbalance that enriched her with one of a kind stories to tell. She is the beneficiary of various honors including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, was granted one of 25 new Ford Foundation Art of Change cooperations in 2017, and is viewed as a key figure in Chicana writing...READ MORE
