Themes in Poetry

3 themes I found were religion, family and youth.

With religion, I found in the first poem about the figs that they were related the figs back to Allah and how it seemed that the figs were his fruit. It said "I'm talking about a fig straight from the Earth - a gift of Allah"

With family, I found that in all poems he would talk about his father or in the case of the third poem his Grandmother. In each of his first two poems he says Papa or father, in the first one he says "My father, in Arabic, chanting a song" and in the second one he says "It was never too strong for us: make it blacker Papa". He seemed to relate all of these poems back to his family or include them in it so we can infer that he had a close-knit relationship with his family

For youth, it is clear that since he uses Papa and Father and mother all the time that he is talking about memories of his childhood. He even speaks to being a young age in the first poem when he says; "At age six, I ate a dried fig and shrugged".