Exploring the Text

1. Why do you think Aaron A. Abeyta chose the tortilla as his subject for a “Thirteen Ways” poem?

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   Exploring the Text: - Why do you think Aaron A. Abeyta chose the tortilla as his subject for a “Thirteen Ways” poem?
2. How does he introduce the tortilla? What do the “twenty different tortillas” in the first verse suggest to you? How is the image extended with the open mouth of the niño (child)? How does it set up one of the themes of the poem?

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   Exploring the Text: - How does he introduce the tortilla? What do the “twenty different tortillas” in the first verse suggest to you? How is the image extended with the open mouth of the niño (child)? How does it set up one of the themes of the poem?
3. Identify some of the poem’s images. How does Abeyta create them? What senses do the images appeal to?

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   Exploring the Text: - Identify some of the poem’s images. How does Abeyta create them? What senses do the images appeal to?
4. Abeyta made the decision not to translate some Spanish expressions into English. How does that affect your reading of the poem? Try translating them and see how that changes the poem’s meaning and form.

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   Exploring the Text: - Abeyta made the decision not to translate some Spanish expressions into English. How does that affect your reading of the poem? Try translating them and see how that changes the poem’s meaning and form.