Mexican American and Poem Legal Alien Essay

Ora is in the open poem form, it has no stanzas. It does have a few words that rhyme which are English (5) and Spanish (6) and also with Mexicans (14) and then with Americans (15). The poem also has rhythm, it is a low steady beat. It is a straightforward poem about how life is for a person with the equal race/ethnicity as others and at the same cartridge holder, different from others.The poem licit Alien is about a woman of Mexican parents, who is born and raised in America. An American citizen established by law, but at the same time this person feels like an illegal alien because of how some people treat her. She is bland in both, English and in Spanish. Feels American because she is, but at the same time she doesnt. She is looked at by Americans (Anglos) as inferior, and looked at by Mexicans like she doesnt belong.They make her feel like she is not whizz of them, like she doesnt fit anywhere. An American to Mexicans a Mexican to Americans a handy item slew back and forth b etween the fringes of both worlds (14-18).Wha Rosa PantojaPeriod 110/9/12Ms. HamptonAmerican literatureLegal Alien EssayThe beliefs of the contemporary time period is that the voices of all cultures, ethnicgroups, gender, and nationalities should be heard and poetry is universal and speaks to allpeople regardless of their background. In the poem Legal Alien by Pat Mora, the literary devicesthat Pat Mora uses are metaphor and personification.These literary devices help endanger the authors message to the audience which are the Mexican-Americans. The metaphor show thatbeing Mexican-American has its advantages and the personification shows the disadvantages of how people status Mexican-American.Pat Mora uses metaphor to reveal the message that being Mexican-Americans has anadvantage to the audience.In line 16 a handy token sliding back and forth betwee. n the fringes of both worlds this is a metaphor because she is comparing herself to a token. She comparesherself to a token because tokens usually have twain sides to it, and she is implying that she alsohas two sides because she is Mexican and American. P at Mora uses handy token because she says that it is an advantage because she can go between the borders of being Mexican andbeing American.Pat uses the word fringes instead of use the word border because the fringe is bringing both sides of the world together and a border separates the two worlds of Americans and Mexicans, and by her being Mexican- American she is bringing both of thoseworlds togethe.