Analysis of Cesar Vallejos Poem, Our Daily Bread (Translated by James Wright) :: Religion

Analysis of Cesar Vallejos Poem, Our mundane Bread (Translated by James Wright)I was in a turmoil when I read and reread Our Daily Bread. This poem has a lot of emotions involved in it. Feelings of hunger, sadness, anger, guilt, and warmth are felt through out the poem. In the first stanza, the speaker sets the scene with undermine earth of the cemetery, City of winter, mordant crusade. Especially when the speaker speaks of the fragrance of the peculiar blood, we feel coldness, l cardinalliness and death. All through this poem, the speaker uses symbols to connect us with Jesus. The precious blood is a symbol of Jesus giving his life for us. If you look at it in a different way, the precious blood is the blood that drips set down from Jesus forehead from the crown of thorns. The phrase and emotion of fasting that cannot get free represents hunger and death.The meaning behind I wish I could beat on all the doors, and ask for somebody -- if we think of the narrator as Jesuss voice - - is that Jesus wishes he could have reached more people who were in need. Look at the poor, and, while they wept softly is surely an emotion of guilt that he didnt reach as many people as he wanted to. Then he goes on with feeding the poor give bits of fresh bread. He turns his guilt to anger toward the rich by saying he would plunder the rich of their vineyards. another(prenominal) symbols of Jesus dying for us is the blood and wine that our sins may be forgiven. The speaker uses two blessed hands -- Jesuss hands as they nailed him to the cross. Blasted the nails with one blow of light represents Jesuss crucifixion. As they nailed him to the cross, it grew dark, and his holy spirit flew away from the Cross up to the heavens.The speaker returns to the crucifixion with the phrase every bone in me belongs to others. This is a symbol of Jesus dying for us. Maybe I robbed them, he says. Jesus feels that he did not achieve his purpose as he continues I pop to think that, if I had not b een born, another poor man could have drunk this coffee.I feel like a dirty thief. This phrase conveys Jesuss feelings of treason that he robbed us by not fulfilling his goals.