The Pier of La Herradura- Javier Zamora Poem analysis

Zamora

________ uses other literary devices to enhance his point, he employs imagery and specific diction that stirs up a nice, almost beautiful image in the reader's mind, which contrasts dramatically with the real scene he's meant to convey.

El Salvador

The Pier of La Herradura "is the traumatic experience of the authors father and the factors that influenced his childhood, that consequently affected Zamoras development and thoughts around the ongoing conflict of his country, ________.

https

/ www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58466/the-pier-of-la-herradura

It is inevitable for me to think of myself as well and how those experiences of my parents also changed my way of thinking and acting, leading us to where we are today

3000 miles away from Colombia

Even though the reader already knows who the man is, at the end of the novel the author clearly makes the connection with his personal experience, affirming that

"My father is one of those birds

He illustrates

"till water churns the color of sunsets"