Pat Mora's Sonrisas

In Patmora 's "Sonrisas", the woman said that the spectator lives between the two worlds. Her boring workplace and kitchen / lounge, colleagues of family and colleagues. Mora contains many sensuous details to deepen the understanding of the speaker's experience in the "room". The speaker is satisfied to live in the "corridor" between the two rooms. Because she can wear a figurative mask. Accepted ones

Pat Mora was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. Four Spanish speaking grandparents moved during the Mexican Revolution. Her strong belief in promoting intercultural understanding and understanding of Spanish culture is often revealed in her work. She frequently wrote about the elements of the Southwest, connect with Hispanics and give them a cultural tradition that is very important for their identity (University of Minnesota). - ... She also talked about her "past and present" (Esteves 362). This can be explained by her showing herself in the same way past and present.

In Patmora 's "Sonrisas", the woman said that the spectator lives between the two worlds. Her boring workplace and kitchen / lounge, colleagues of family and colleagues. Mora contains many sensuous details to deepen the understanding of the speaker's experience in the "room". As Jung's psychology states, speakers can live between two rooms so that different societies can be accepted in every room of life, so she can wear figurative masks What are you satisfied with the corridor? Meanwhile, Adrienne Rich is not satisfied to look into the head into the character's door frame, which must be played to be accepted. In my opinion, in her poem "Sneak into a shipwreck," pursuing a personalized form, secretly entering the remains of her inner consciousness, she examined the persons in the world's remains and their influence It was.

Pat Mora (born 1942) was born in El Paso, Texas. She is from a Mexican-American family and I feel fortunate to be able to write in Spanish and English. She writes not only children's books and essays, but also some poems. Mora is proud of being a Hispanic writer. She said that other writers will continue to write what they can not say in a possible way and try to say. The family, Mexican American culture, and the desert are important themes of Mora's work.