1. I think street is about silence and cheating. She wanted to say when people had some troubles, they should face them, not escape. Silence can not help. In third stanza, she wrote the people who were silent. They cannot solve any problems. Thus, " the sky which sews and sews, tirelessly sewing"
In the last stanza, she wrote: " They sleep twice, once for the one who is gone,once for themselves. They dream thickly, dream double, they wake from a dream into another one, they walk the short streets calling out names, and then they answer. " People who slept completely are the people who did not face the troubles. They were cheating to themselves.
2. There are 8 lines and 5 sentences in stanza 4.
3. She wrote "overhead loud grackles are claiming their trees and the sky which sews and sews, tirelessly sewing ". The grackles who are claiming are the people who speak out what they want to say. However, their voices are too small. People can only hear it in quiet evenings. Some silent people stand here, they want to speak, but they do not.
4. In the last stanza, the author wrote two kinds of people. One slept, but then refreshed. This means somebody who were silent before, but then woke up. Another is still sleeping. This means somebody who did not want to speak. She wanted to say people should speak what they want to say, do not keep silence anymore.
5. There are 3 stanzas and 3 sentences in this poem.
6. I think it means the author have lived in America for a long time. She is familiar to American culture. She is an Arab, and she loves Arab, but others regard her as an American more.
7. Hidden also described some little things, but the author wanted to express a big principle by writing this poem. Hidden told us the pain of silence. If we want to say something, we must say it. People never understand, unless we tell them. Also, in other Nye's poems, she used this method. For example, she talked about street and some other little things in the poem, street. She wanted people to speak what they want to say.
8. In this poem, the fuel is Arab culture. She is an Arab, but most people only thought she was an American. Arab culture is really important to her. If she do not speak out, she will lose this cultural identity. In the poem, she said: " If you tuck the name of a loved one under your tongue too long without speaking it it becomes blood sigh." It means if she does not say she was a Arab, people will think she is an American all the time.