Tato Laviera's American

Neither the president of the wealthiest country nor the poorest person on Earth can deny that living in a utopian society is a dream come true. Such society is the one that possessed perfect qualities. Tato Laviera’s poem AmeRican is written around a main theme of the creation of the most idealized society. Laviera names the society AmeRican, a combination of American and Puerto Rican. In order to convey his message to the readers, Laviera makes use of literary devices that enhanced his poem. In addition, Laviera uses repetition to emphasize the tone of hope, struggle and achievement in developing such society.
The first call-to-action is repeated in the first three stanzas of the poem. The phrase “we gave birth to a new generation” is emphasized …show more content…
Starting from the fourth stanza and throughout the novel, the author repeats a different phrase to define AmeRican. Laviera starts the fourth and its following stanzas with the word “AmeRican”. Laviera does this to emphasize that the society is growing and gaining its power. Instead of referring to the society by starting with the “we”, AmeRica is blatantly describes to express a tone of urgency and active. In line 22-24, the phrase “across forth, across back, back across and forth back” is used to identify the chaos and disagreement that affect the growth of the society. The author uses anaphora in this situation to pinpoint that because the society offers a free space for people to express their ideas, individuals then feel their importance and argue for the best of their community. Different opinions, although might lead to uneasiness, can also lead to unity. In the divided perspectives, individuals will eventually learn that they all have the same goal, which is to better the society, and thus lead to unity. A utopian society does not necessarily have to be uniform but it does need homogeneity to sustain. Hence, public opinion is an essential factor in building up harmonious