What does Sonia Sanchez mean by after the spanish in Ballad?

Answer 1

Imagine if you will, a woman of perhaps sixty, seventy, eighty years, listening to a young girl in her teens or perhaps twenty, talking of her passionate love for some unnamed boy. claiming no-one understands the pain she feels............

and she remembers the stunning brightness the world suddenly acquired, the details with which everything suddenly became imbued when she herself fell in love many decades ago. How the texture of a blade of grass became real, the apparent explosion of water droplets in the air were a miracle of nature that people who were not in love and therefore only seeing a tiny fraction of how wonderful the world truly is would regard as simply...rain. She is remembering the explosion of the senses that love brings to one who has falllen HARD into love. Imagine you have always seen the world in black and white through a dirty window looking into someone else's flat- now you have HD, 3D and a 50 inch screen with full cinema sound in your own bedroom!. Wow!