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I chose to read quiescency Convicts in the Cellblock, by open up Santiago Baca, because the poetrys discerning piece of rebirth and second chances sincerely intrigued me. I admire that Baca didnt promptly state the verse forms meaning, entirely instead, chose to impart plentiful yet subtle hints, forcing me to grant inferences and question my spirit of the piece. Initially, I was entirely unintellectual of the poems meaning. I was trying to test it in a off the beaten track(predicate) too substantial sense, in the lead me to question the significance of the songwriter and the songbirds actions. However, over the course of doubled readings, I was able to meticulously pick apart what distributively line, phrase and individual book of account meant and how each of these aspects correlate to make a complex and meaning(prenominal) poem.\nAt first glance, this poem was extremely confusing. Baca makes it clear that the poem takes place in a prison house and that a so ngbird flies over the prison while the convicts are sleeping, but the first condemnation that I read through the poem, that was essentially all that I gathered. I understood all of the literal events that had transpired, but I skilful didnt put enough time or effort into comprehending the metaphoric aspects of the writing to understand a great deal of anything. This left me with a actually basic comprehension of what Baca had written. I didnt understand how the songbird and the convicts were germane(predicate) to one another. To me, they were just both independent parts of a highly confusing, one-stanza, poem.\nHowever, going backbone and re-reading the poem shed a lot of light on the matter. I picked up on a lot of things that I didnt originally notice. I started to cover the correlation between the songbird and the convicts. I picked up on the fact that the songbird was a symbol of rebirth and a second chance for these prisoners. The lines, It sings to the tender day, / Its wings beckoning for flight. Its wings flummox (11-12), were probably my biggest clues. This excerpt rattling made me stop readin...