Saturday, December 14, 2013

In the poem "Same Song" by Pat Mora, identify the speaker in the poem."Same Song" by Pat Mora

The speaker of this excellent poem is a concerned mother
who is tired and worried about the way that her children, a daughter and a son, invest
so much time and energy into their looks but always seem to judge themselves harshy and
as if they do not measure up to the beauty that they feel they must attain. The speaker
describes the lengths that her children go to to make themselves beautiful or handsome
and also their dedication: the way that they either stay up late or drag themselves out
of bed early in the morning to do what they feel they need to do. Likewise the
description of their "routines" is focused on the amount of effort they put into trying
to make themselves conform to society's ideal of beauty. Thus we can see that the
speaker is the mother of the children who worries about her children and their own sense
of self.

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