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When I was a Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago The novel When I was a Puerto Rican is written by Esmeralda Santiago and it is set in the village Macun, Puerto Rica in 1950’s. It is a memoir of  Esmeralda Santiago’s transition from childhood to adulthood .The story begins at the age of four and ends with the protagonist’s graduation from Performing Arts  at Harvard University .Negi (Esmeralada Santiago) always wants to be a Jibara, a Puerto Rican country dweller with distinctive dialect. Her Mami (Real name is Ramona) snubs her saying she cannot be a Jibara as she was born in the city, where Jibaras are mocked for their peculiar dialect. Negi  learns that her  real name is Esmeralada Santiago and Negi is her nickname. As per Puerto Rica tradition people usually have a nick name and another official name. Negi  has three siblings Delsa, Norma and Hector. Mami accuses Pablito, father of Negi , of spending his hard-earned money on other women for sexual pleasures. It...

KU Sem 1 New syllabus 2025-26 Unit1 Poetry Foundation Homepage Poems & Poets Topics & Themes Features Events & Programs About Us Poetry  Magazine July/August 2025 Subscribe Subscribe Search Ode to the West Wind By  Percy Bysshe Shelley I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odours plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear! II Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion, Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed...