Rigoberto Chicago Poem Essay

Poetry has been used over the years to express social protest or refer to a complaint about the misleading attitudes of society. The poet Rigoberto González is no exception and through both, his poems “Casa” and “The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods” conveys current issues such as awareness of gender equality and a complaint about materialism. Although the author discusses different themes in both poems, its effect is equally shocking through the richness of rhetorical devices such as metaphors, similes, among other characteristics. In both poems “Casa” and “Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods” it is employed rhetorical devices. Throughout the poem “Casa” it is utilized alliterations as “if there's a smell of spices in the air” and “your woman's wedding dress away” (“Casa” 19, 29). Although, metaphor and similes for example, “I am not a time capsule”, and “row of faces pinned like medals” to add more meaning to the theme and intensify the effect of it in the poem (“Casa” 23,16). Overall, they develop …show more content…
In contrast, in the first poem, the speaker is a house, “take care, you fool,/and do not forget that I am just a house” that speaks with a burlesque, and blunt tone ("Casa" 58). The owner of the house has faced hard circumstances when his wife or children had left, but consequently, the house mocks him or her and exclaims “color me surprised! I did not notice they were gone” (“Casa” 15). On the other hand, in “The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods” the speaker it is unknown, however, it is a person because he is sitting “on the bench” and “smoking” waiting for the “fugitive to claim him as his own” (“The Strangers” 25,26). And the tone of this poem differs from the first being this reflective “I am as wise as any stranger here, alone but with the knowledge that the grief of separation is always brief” (“The Strangers”