Question

The theme of the poem can best be described as?

1) Nature is amazing and confusing.
2) A poet can create entire worlds with words.
3) Sometimes it is good to just lie and watch the sky.
4) The world is a prison and only the mind can help you escape.

Cloud by Sandra Cisneros
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. -Thich Nhat Hanh Before you became a cloud, you were an ocean, roiled and murmuring like a mouth. You were the shadows of a cloud cross- ing over a field of tulips. You were the tears of a man who cried into a plaid handkerchief. You were the sky without a hat. Your heart puffed and flowered like sheets drying on a line. And when you were a tree, you listened to the trees and the tree things trees told you. You were the wind in the wheels of a red bicycle. You were the spidery Maria tattooed on the hairless arm of a boy in downtown Houston. You were the rain rolling off the waxy leaves of a magnolia tree. A lock of straw-colored hair wedged between the mottled pages of a Victor Hugo novel. A crescent of soap. A spider the color of a fingernail. The black nets beneath the sea of olive trees. A skein of blue wool. A tea saucer wrapped in newspaper. An empty cracker tin. A bowl of blueber- ries in heavy cream. White wine in a green-stemmed glass. And when you opened your wings to wind, across the punched- tin sky above a prison courtyard, those condemned to death and those condemned to life watched how smooth and sweet a white cloud glides.

Answer 1

Option 2. The theme of the poem can best be described as: a poet can create entire worlds with words.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Cloud" by Sandra Cisneros is a poem about our surroundings and although it is easy for us to abstract ourselves from it, it is also easy for us to reconnect with the world we live in. The poet embraces and shows the reader how poets can create entire worlds and take you to them, only with the use of words. By describing a cloud, sheets drying, a bar of soap and the sky, the author makes the reader live and see those surroundings just by reading the words, and that composes the main theme of the poem.

Answer 2

2) A poet can create entire worlds with words.

Step-by-step explanation:

This option is introduced by the author in the first sentence and then using literary devices to create and describe a world where she is acting as a cloud.