Gabriela Mistral

Some reoccurring themes of Gabriela Mistral’s poems are about children that echoed of lullabies or nursery rhymes. She also has political essays that took an internationalist and feminist position. The controversy surrounding Mistral’s sexuality is that she is a lesbian and in Chile the people are very conservative so they are not fond of her being into anyone but men. “Chile has not brains or common sense yet, it has not maturity. I do not think you have to understand Mistral’s sexuality in order to know what she is talking about in her poems. Mistral talks mostly about Children in her poems and it does not matter if you are super liberal or super conservative you can understand where she is coming from about children. If you read her political works about feminism a reader would probably have to understand where she is coming from with her point of views. The themes that I see in the poem are of a mother who is watching over their child and thinking about the future for that child. I feel the mom is talking about the importance of a mother in a child's life as the narrator puts a parallel in the mother and child's life to the ocean and waves.