Summary Of Identity By Julia Noboa

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Julia Noboa’s poem “Identity” is about the contrast between flowers and weeds. Noboa’s poem alludes to the fact that life is better spent being oneself, even if it is not the prettiest, then being pruned back by the world's standards. The speaker uses symbolism to prove this idea.

Noboa uses the symbolism of the flowers, being the world's standards, and the weeds, being one’s true self, to prove the point that being an individual is better for a person's well-being. Noboa starts the poem with, “Let them be as flowers,/ always watered, fed, guarded, admired,/ but harnessed to a pot of dirt” (Noboa 1-3), and Noboa ends with, “If I could stand alone, strong and free,/ I’d rather be a tall, ugly weed” (22-23). When watered, fed, guarded, and admired,

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