What is Katalina?

You just read the poem by R. Dove “Parsley.” Answering the following questions will help you to understand and analyze the poem. Part I. The Cane Fields There is a parrot imitating springin the palace, its feathers parsley green.Out of the swamp the cane appears What does “cane field” represent?

What does “he is all the world there is” mean?

“Even a parrot can roll an R!” By saying this, what does Rita Dove try to achieve?

‘He sees his mother’s smile, the teeth gnawed to arrowheads.” What could it mean?

The negotiations, however, fixed an indemnity of US$750,000, which was later reduced to US$525,000 by agreement between the two governments.

Supporters of Trujillo claim that he reorganized both the state and the economy, and left vast infrastructure to the country.

On Tuesday, May 30, 1961 Trujillo was shot and killed when his blue Chevrolet Bel Air was ambushed on a road outside the Dominican capital.

What can the general be compared to in the line “he laughs, teeth shining out of swamp?”

calls out his name in a voiceso like his mother’s, a startled tearsplashes the tip of his right boot.My mother, my love in death.The general remembers the tiny green sprigsmen of his village wore in their capesto honor the birth of a son. He willorder many, this time, to be killedfor a single, beautiful word. How does the general come up with the word ‘parsley?’