After our class discussion I decided that it would make sense for me to discuss one of my favorite poems by Nye, "Arabic Coffee". This poem seems to be saying that the coffee brings everyone together. It is the center of the family. It is a way of keeping at least one thing similar and normal in a life that is ever changing. The coffee is a symbol for these people who are gathering. It is a symbol for hope and for faith. Nye writes, "The coffee was the center of the flower. Like clothes on a line saying You will live long enough to wear me, a motion of faith". This personification of the clothes on a line represents how the traditional coffee and meeting place of this family or group of people provides a grasp on reality that says that there will be more days of coffee and more days of this continuing tradition.
I would also like to look at the final line of the poem: "There is this, and there is more." This line I feel is not only the most important line in the poem, but also a pretty good summary of what the poem is about. Looking deeper into what Nye is saying in lines 10 and 19, it seems like the coffee table is a meeting place where all of the people in the family can discuss how they feel and what is going on in their lives without the fear of being judged for what they were saying. The way that this connects to the final line of the poem is that I believe Nye is saying that there is the opportunity to discuss our dreams, as well as the opportunity to achieve them. The coffee meeting is a time to get these ideas and feelings outside, in the open, and then afterwards there is more, there is time and opportunity to change the way things are going and reach for more.
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