Upon first reading: I really struggled to determine the narrator and what made the narrator so unmoved by it's people. At first I thought perhaps its an old bitter woman who once wasn't this way but lost a part of herself
-I also hoped that by the end of the poem, something would have changed in the narrator.
What I Realized:
-After reading the entirety of the poem, I realized that the narrator was actually a house.
In actuality, it is a house that once was a HOME to a family. Its a major PERSONIFICATION. The entire poem is a house speaking to a distraught person/persons.
-The house WAS a home:
"Take care, you fool,
and don't forget that I am just a house,
a structure without soul for those whose
patron saints are longing and despair."
The idea that it is "a structure without a soul for those whose patron saints are longing and despair" begs the idea that when it was filled with people of happiness and content, the home itself had a soul. A mood perhaps. *I can imagine a dark empty home (soulless) and a colorful and filled with memories and furniture home that has happy patrons (filled with soul)*
About the Author: Born in Bakersfield, CA but from Michoacán, Mexico. Chicano/Latino activist writer.
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