Critical Response: Sandra Cisneros Loose Women

James Galvan
English 306
Steve Pett
Critical Response: Sandra Cisneros Loose Women
The book Loose Women by Sandra Cisneros is full of many poems in which are very unique to her. When she writes her poems she basically expresses all her emotions as she writes. In Cisneros writing, she also likes to bring a Latino perspective into most of her poems because of her Mexican roots. In addition, as you read Cisneros poem it would soon be obvious that they are very intimate in they way that she uses the similes and metaphors. Cisneros even uses the word “you” in most of her poem and addresses the word “you” generally as a lover.
When looking at Cisneros poems, there is one poem that clearly can be identified show most of the characteristics in her writing. The poem “You Bring Out the Mexican in Me” (p. 4) is a great example of this. When looking at this poem it is clear that Cisneros expresses a lot of emotions throughout it. Some of these expressions of emotions can be seen in lines such as “The fear of fascists in me. / The Pandora’s curiosity in me. / I want rattle and rent you in two. I want to defile you and raise hell. I want to pull out the kitchen knives, dull and sharp, and whisk the air with crosses.” These lines clearly show the fear, curiosity and anger Cisneros was feeling when she wrote the poem. This poem is also a great example of how Cisneros likes to bring up her Mexican roots. The title and basically every other line in the poem has to do with how Cisneros likes to write about her roots. Some of these lines in which this can be seen are “The Mexican spitfire in me. / The Mexico City ’85 earthquake in me. / Love the way a Mexican women loves.” In addition, this poem even has her addressing the word “you” as a lover. This can be seen in the lines “You are the one I’d let go the other loves for / I claim you all mine / I could kill in the name of you and think it worth it. / Love the way a Mexican women loves. Let me show you.”
Sandra Cisneros poems will always be something very unique. Cisneros expresses what would be considered someone’s most private emotions about love and sex through her writings. Not only is it expressed through what Cisneros feels but she also writes her poems through two different cultural views which will always make the book Loose Women something very unique to all other poetry books.