Alarcon's Mexican Is Not A Noun

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In Francisco X. Alarcon’s 2002 poem “Mexican Is Not A Noun”, we see that the author is writing using cinquain stanzas. The author is also writing in a lyrical form as evidenced by his strong expression of thought and feeling on what “Mexican” is or is not. As I read this poem, I can feel the author’s intense frustration in the systematic generalization of “Mexican” as versed “Mexican is a life long low-paying job A check on the welfare police form” (Kirszner and Mandell, 2012). Likewise, the use of alliteration by using the word “it” to emphasize Mexicans in this piece allows the reader through the author’s viewpoint to feel the empathy in his writing as he states “it hurts it points it dreams it offends it cries” (Kirszner and Mandell, 2012).

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