: She is best known for the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies .
Alvarez uses this intimate encounter to explore several universal themes:
The poem highlights how immigration affects men and women differently within the narrative.
This is not a poem of youthful rebellion. The speaker is an older woman. She has spent decades living under religious judgment. Now, with the wisdom of age, she feels free to speak her truth. Aging has given her the courage to say what the young nun or the guilt-ridden mother could not: that desire is not dirty, and that God is not a killjoy.
The title suggests a higher, perhaps unconditional form of love, but also highlights how love can be "divine" yet impossible to hold onto permanently.
: She is best known for the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies .
Alvarez uses this intimate encounter to explore several universal themes: amor divino julia alvarez summary
The poem highlights how immigration affects men and women differently within the narrative. : She is best known for the novels
This is not a poem of youthful rebellion. The speaker is an older woman. She has spent decades living under religious judgment. Now, with the wisdom of age, she feels free to speak her truth. Aging has given her the courage to say what the young nun or the guilt-ridden mother could not: that desire is not dirty, and that God is not a killjoy. The speaker is an older woman
The title suggests a higher, perhaps unconditional form of love, but also highlights how love can be "divine" yet impossible to hold onto permanently.
