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Llorona. La Llorona is very similar to the classic story of many women in history such as Medea. It is the story of a woman betrayed and a woman who
takes the lives of her children. Miranda illustrates who she is, how she is connected to this woman, both symbolically and perhaps realistically, and then offers up numerous poems about
this particular theme, or playing off this particular theme. The following paper examines Miranda and her work. Deborah Miranda and "The Zen of La Llorona" In the introduction
Miranda speaks of how her grandmother told her about Mirandas mother who lost a child and was bitter and angry her entire life, leaving Miranda with something of the La
Llorona legacy within herself. She illustrates that perhaps all people, or all women, have a very powerful element of this within themselves as "The stories are lessons about self-betrayal and
grief; Be vigilant, maintain an active and sincere relationship with power, with the powers of the earth, our minds, bodies, hearts, and the hearts of others" (Miranda 1). In understanding
this particular theme, and who Miranda is, the remainder of the paper looks at particular poems in the text. The first poem to be examined is titled "Forty." Miranda speaks
of her mother, her mothers mother, and herself. She illustrates how her mothers birth almost cost Mirandas grandmothers death. She speaks of how Mirandas mother became pregnant at 17 and
was in a bad marriage. "One night he locks you in the bedroom,/ leaves you to sleep it off" (Miranda 13-14, 23). As she is locked in the bedroom two
toddler children are left to roam the house, find aspirin, and one evidently dies. In the poem Miranda states that her conception saved her mothers life as cancer was discovered
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