forced to express yourself in a certain way. Author Rhina Espaillat obtains the hardship in a poem, “Bilingual/Bilingue” of having to speak a language you involuntarily want to. This piece runs through the struggle and benefits of being bilingual with a strict parents, expressing the feelings from both the daughter’s and dad’s side. The poem displays many emotions producing how one can overcome such a battle and finally find that secure state. Espaillat use of symbols, dictions and similes, she presents