La Mudatina
A chocolate gooey liquid begins its descent onto my skin.
The mud screams and splashes with joy and enthusiasm on to my resistant and reluctant skin.
It seems like the liquid is enjoying itself, at a moment’s glance it possess blu tack-like characteristics.
The Liquid covers my body, slowly tearing my hair off in a soothing manner.
The liquid speaks in a soothing manner and calming manneruntil the mud becomes more barbaric and scavenger like.
Suddenly becoming relentless in its efforts to pursue the eradication and destruction of my body.
The Tearing and damage of my skin causes the skin to weep in tears becoming slightly imbalanced by the water to mud ratio.
The skin that is attached to my body focuses itself on survival and attaches itself tightly to the host body in preparation for other attacks.
The mud realises the skin’s quest for survival and seeks to quash any resistance to its undemocratic ways of manipulation and destruction.
The mud becomes obnoxious not realising the gravity of his errors.
A hand moves at the speed of light, attaching itself to my skin and pulling me out of the mud-like abyss. The mud retreats and reclines to the belly/surface it was brought out of.
The mud reflects on its ill-fated quest for dominance, superiority and power as only a patch is left in the middle of The Aztec-Patterned Square. The skin has claimed a victory against the mud.
The Mudatina, Just another Day in La Mudatina.
Summary of The Poem & Analysis : The first verse of the poem refers to the first interaction between the skin and the mud. This verse hopes the audience realises that the mud’s arrival on the skin is ironic, unexpected and a theme that is repeated throughout the poem.
The second and third verses of the poem refers to mud’s evil intentions and it’s supposedly underlying feelings of negativity, bloodlust and destruction.
This verse ensures that the mud’s intentions are not revealed yet until later on in the poem it also refers to the approach that the mud has stuck to the primary body.
The third verse refers to the second verse but this verse reveals more about the mud’s intentions to cause harm to the body
The fourth verse and the fifth verse of the poem refers to the manipulation techniques that the muds uses to ensure a passive motive taken by the primary body which is supposedly meant to ensure the primary body that there will be no harm. However the primary body exercises caution and realises the danger that the body is in.
The sixth verse of the poem refers to the damage that the mud has started to wield upon the primary body and how that affects the skin’s rigidity.
The seventh verse of the poem refers to the realisation that the skin makes. It realises that it needs to survive in order to do its function and protect the primary body from any outside/alien substances.
The eighth verse of the poem can be likened to the situation where an evil leader finds about the good intentions of good individuals and seeks to mislead the individuals with good intentions.
The ninth verse of the poem is referring to that the mud gets so obsessed with the power struggle, he forgets about other things that could dismantle his plan.
The tenth verse of the poem refers to the saviour of the primary body.
The eleventh verse of the poem refers to when evil is squashed by the good forces and either is destroyed or goes back with many re-attempts.
The twelve verse of the poem is in relation with the victory that the skin has achieved. The thirteenth verse of the poem refers to la Tomatina which is a festival in Spain where tomatoes are thrown and it becomes like a mosh pit.
This resemblance is shown in La Mudatina where a situation become chaotic.
Callaghan MYP 5
Film Review : Room (2015)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
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