Dear Aunt Chofi (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Daisy Zamora
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Epistle/letter in verse
- Genres: Free verse, Poetry, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Art or artists, Women’s issues, Women, Death or dying, Painting or painters, Mexican Americans, Mexico or Mexicans, Old age or elderly people, Aging
The Poem
“Dear Aunt Chofi” is a long poem in free verse with thirteen stanzas containing more than ninety-five lines in the English version. The title clearly suggests a letter from a niece to her aunt and serves to underscore the monologic nature of the poem, which is a one-sided conversation between the niece and her deceased Aunt Sofía. The narrator, “I,” addresses herself to “you,” the aunt, thus making the reader an outside observer, an eavesdropper on a conversation in print. Chofi is a fond nickname for Sofía, which means “wisdom.” As she eulogizes her...
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