Julio Noboa Planco Identity Essay

All throughout the summer homework assignments, I have stated that poems are messages that poets want to convey to the readers. One of my favorite poems in Springboard Unit 4 was, “Identity”, by Julio Noboa Polanco. I enjoyed this poem because it spoke of freedom being more important than admiration. In some ways admiration is good, for example looking up to someone, but admiration based on looks is one of the many impurities that humans have developed over the years thus, I would like to analyze “Identity” because of the message hidden discreetly behind a story.
I think that Polanco was trying to say that although you may not be beautiful, being free and feeling alive is more important than looking and smelling good. In stanza 19- 22, it states, “I’d rather smell of musty, green stench than of sweet, fragrant lilac.
If I could stand

This is the stanza that sums up the whole moral of the poem in simple words. One of the stanzas that I think of as very important is stanza 7-9,
“To have broken through the surface of stone, to live, to feel exposed to the madness of the vast, eternal sky.”
I think that the freedom that the poet is talking about is all of the drama that goes on in life, or all of the events that go wrong and turn into mishap, and being able to escape that as a poor person must be luxury. Lastly there is the stanzas 1-3,
“Let them be as flowers always watered, fed, guarded, admired, but harnessed to a pot of dirt.”
Although rich people are always pampered and have anything and everything they want because of the amount of money they have, they are limited to the amount of decisions that they can make. For example a Prince and Princess is not allowed to choose who they are allowed to marry due to their class and their responsibilities, but they can get anything they want because they have the