Immigrants in Our Own Land
Jessica Parra's blog entry about the poem is similar to my thoughts towards it. As I read the first sentence, I just pictured myself saying that exact same thing. We have similar opinions and thoughts towards the poem. It does talk about immigrants how they come to the United States for a better future and life, but all they get to realize is pure disappointment.
Theme: Freedom, but it changes to change
Tone: Explaining from a point a view, mono tone
Mood: Believer in the beginning, but throughout the poem it changes to disappointment
Devices: Metaphors
1st Stanza
- he describes their travel to their own land
-immigrants view as if they are coming to a new place
-different jobs they were able to do in the country they came from, but won't be able to do it in the new place they just arrived
-opportunities fading away, as they move somewhere else
2nd Stanza
-the immigrants that came to the new world are warning the new people who are coming in
-they are letting them know that they have been tricked
-instead of having better opportunities than they expected, they get sent to miserable low paying jobs
-they came to the new world expecting something better from where they came from
-racism
-people sticking with their own kind of people
3rd Stanza
-came to the new world for a better life and to get away from dictators
-get treated better
-got treated the same or worse in the new world
- they are slowly dying inside and out
4th Stanza
-live in very poor conditions
-they are living the same way they used to live back in their hometown
5th Stanza
-in need of things
-didn't have much money
-new immigrants arriving hoping for a better life
-hearts full of dreams that will eventually not come true
-new people with the same expectations as the old immigrants had before they were introduced into reality
6th Stanza
-realization of things
-the world they used to live in was much more better than the new world
-their dreams are crushed, not any slight chance that they will come true
-nothing is the same after, the world they used to live in it doesn't exist now
-everything that they have been through has changed
Final thoughts: All this has made me realize that everything in life isn't as bad as we think. We might think that something in life is better than what we are living or we have. We say things sometimes without knowing how they really are, or might turn out to be. We must appreciate what we have because if we don't, then it might be too late later in life. Our expectations aren't always what we think they are, so lets not take for granted the life we are living right now. This poem speaks out to many people out there in the world. I just really like this poem because it caught my attention by the way it made me think.
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