Small Town with One Road (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gary Soto
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Class consciousness, California, West, U.S., Farms, farmers, or farming, Minorities, Small-town life, Mexican Americans, Migrant labor, Latinos
The Poem
“Small Town with One Road” is a short poem in free verse, its thirty-three lines forming one stanza. The title suggests a quiet poem, and it is, presenting a reflective commentary on life within the valley as compared with a life beyond. The poem is written in the first person. The speaker is a father, and he and his daughter are contemplating their view of the valley, but the speaker is primarily addressing the reader.
The first section of the poem is primarily descriptive, as Soto depicts the lives of Mexican American farm workers and their families in a...
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