Theme Of The Poem Fence By Pat Mora

“Fence” is a beautiful poem portraying the picture of social distinction between rich and poor through observation of a girl as a speaker by Pat Mora a Mexican American writer. She is best known to write about the borders that exist physically, mentally, spiritually and socially. This poem is a classical example of differences between wealthy and poor. Though the talk about the so called equality is held every now and then in our society and politics but the reality is far from the talks which she has successfully shown the reader through this heart touching poem. Though there remains various inequalities in society she has chosen class distinction by wealth in the society as the theme of the poem. It is rather like a sad story revealing the …show more content…
Because of her spinach taste she has used ‘turistas’ in jocular manner to address the tourists. When analyzing this first line it is important to evaluate that the laughter’s of tourists is so closely observed that it ravels the under laying search her own smile which doesn’t seem to exist to the speaker, then when she addresses those bags filled with dollars, she has two meanings there. One is obvious to most of the readers that she is hinting to their wealth and huge possessions tourists have however one may fail to see such observation is due to lack of the same in her life. There one could then through keen analysis seen the speaker has shown the readers the cause of her sadness, i.e. wealth. She has shown a border between herself and the wealthy tourists that come to hotel. This is a economic border that has caused inequality in society and thus exists felling of lacking to the …show more content…
This cactus fence is the attempt of the poet to show a physical form of the border that is discussed earlier. It is not easy to cross that cactus fence because of the thrones existing there. This is how poet has shown the hardship to cross the border of class distinction by wealth in the existing society and situation, then all that she can do is watch with hopes. When she describes her view she intentionally speaks of oil sweater than honey. This has again a symbolic meaning showing that the speaker is aware of waste that rich people do. Though it might be good for the tourist’s skin but for her that value of oil is far beyond body application. It shows that such amount invested in that oil can be utilized for other good purposes. Her happiness seems to have faded when she sees the children of tourists jumping and playing with tides of sea, her own childhood seems lost. She has a deep desire to be able to do the same that is not allowed to her due to her poverty. She so carefully observes the straw and the color of coconut and mango juices, it indicates she may never had one them in her entire life. This becomes further sadist from