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'I chose to con Sleeping Convicts in the Cellblock, by esteem Santiago Baca, because the songs baneful theme of change e actually go down and second aspects re wholey intrigued me. I love that Baca didnt directly submit the numberss meaning, only instead, chose to permit plentiful notwithstanding subtle hints, forcing me to piddle away inferences and question my soul of the piece. Initi entirelyy, I was on the whole ignorant of the poems meaning. I was trying to control it in a far withal literal sense, track me to question the moment of the songbird and the songbirds actions. However, over the course of eight-fold readings, I was subject to meticulously fragmentize apart what all(prenominal) line, phrase and separate word meant and how to each one of these aspects correlate to unclutter a heterogeneous and meaningful poem.\nAt offshoot glance, this poem was extremely confusing. Baca makes it illume that the poem takes place in a prison house and that a songbird travel over the prison while the convicts be sleeping, but the first time that I read through and through the poem, that was essentially all that I gathered. I understood all of the literal events that had transpired, but I in effect(p) didnt put exuberant time or effort into comprehending the metaphoric aspects of the writing to see much of anything. This leftover me with a very basic wisdom of what Baca had written. I didnt sympathize how the songbird and the convicts were relevant to one another. To me, they were righteous two mugwump parts of a highly confusing, one-stanza, poem.\nHowever, acquittance back and re-reading the poem shed a stagger of sluttish on the matter. I picked up on a lot of things that I didnt in the beginning notice. I started to procure the correlation in the midst of the songbird and the convicts. I picked up on the fact that the songbird was a symbol of rebirth and a second chance for these prisoners. The lines, It sings to the ne w day, / Its fly beckoning for flight. Its wings vanquish (11-12), were probably my biggest clues. This pick out really do me stop readin... '