'Mexican American and Poem Legal Alien Essay\r'

'Ora is in the open poesy form, it has no stanzas. It does have a few nomenclature that rhyme which are â€Å"English” (5) and â€Å"Spanish” (6) and a same with â€Å"Mexicans” (14) and then with â€Å"Americans” (15). The metrical composition also has rhythm, it is a showtime steady beat. It is a straightforward poem near how life is for a person with the homogeneous fly the coop/ethnicity as others and at the same time, different from others.\r\nThe poem â€Å"Legal unknown” is about a fair sex 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 exotic because of how some people treat her. She is fluent in both, English and in Spanish. Feels American because she is, but at the same time she doesn’t. She is looked at by Americans (Anglos) as inferior, and looked at by Mexicans like she doesn’t belong.\r\nThey nominate her fee l like she is not one of them, like she doesn’t fit anywhere. â€Å"An American to Mexicans a Mexican to Americans a handy particular slip tush and forth between the fringes of both spheres” (14-18).Wha Rosa PantojaPeriod cx/9/12Ms. HamptonAmerican literatureLegal Alien EssayThe beliefs of the contemporary time fulfilment is that the voices of all cultures, ethnicgroups, gender, and nationalities should be heard and poetry is normal and speaks to allpeople regardless of their background. In the poem Legal Alien by Pat Mora, the literary devicesthat Pat Mora uses are allegory and personification.\r\nThese literary devices help reveal the writer’s message to the audience which are the Mexican-Americans. The metaphor show thatbeing Mexican-American has its receiptss and the personification shows the disadvantages of how people view Mexican-American.Pat Mora uses metaphor to reveal the message that being Mexican-Americans has anadvantage to the audience.\r\ nIn place 16 â€Å"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 two sides to it, and she is implying that she alsohas two sides because she is Mexican and American. P at Mora uses â€Å"handy token” because she says that it is an advantage because she can go between the borders of being Mexican andbeing American.\r\nPat uses the explicate â€Å"fringes” instead of using 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.\r\n'