Analysis Of 'La Migra' By Pat Mora

“Poems differ as much as the people who write and read them, or as much as music and movies do” (Mays 846). Poems are the most difficult form of writing to analyze because they can be interpreted differently. Poems are composed of figurative language. Many times poems can be overanalyzed or not analyzed enough which could lead one to obtain an idea out of the poem that the writer never intended to provide.
The sonnet “The Facebook Sonnet” is a poem that talks about the role of social media in our lives. Social Media, Facebook, has become a major part of our life to go through the memories. People today are “stuck in the past.” Although the poem is not entirely made up of rhymes it does have a few such as the couplet. “Let’s sign up, sign in,

The poem appears to display a free verse. The poem has an interesting way of showing the point of view of the protagonists. The poem is made up of two stanzas, and each stanza has a different point of view. The first stanza is written in the perspective of the Border Patrol and the second stanza shows the perspective of the Mexican women. The first stanza is the Border Patrol talking about the advantage they have over her. “I get the badge and sunglasses./ You can hide and run,/ but you can’t get away/ because I have a jeep” (Mora 1216). The Border Patrol agent thinks he has an advantage because he has the resources to stop the woman and she has nothing to fight back. He is implying that she can run and hide, but in the end he will find her because in his perspective he thinks he has an advantage. The second stanza shows the perspective of the Mexican woman. “I know this desert,/ where to rest,/ where to drink” (Mora 1217). The woman thinks she has an advantage and although she does not have all the resources the border patrol has she knows how to survive. The border patrol agent is alone but she is in her land and knows her way around. The perspective of both the Border Patrol agent and the Mexican woman shows irony. Each think they have an advantage in the setting. The tone demonstrated in the poem is optimistic because both seemed to be confident. They are confident of their sources to survive.
Each poem has its own underlying meaning. The sonnet “The Facebook sonnet” is a poem that follows the structure of a Shakespearian sonnet. The poem showed a strong opposition towards social media. The poem “La Migra” is a poem about immigration along the border of Mexico and the US. It demonstrated that each had an advantage over each other. Both poems undertake an issue and try to give their perspective over the issue or at least tries to imply their