As you saw in Frida Kahlo’s artwork, juxtaposition is the


arrangement of two or more things for the purpose of comparison. Identify


places where Mora juxtaposes two contrasting views, situations, or actions.


How does she use this technique throughout the poem to create a sense of the


speaker’s conflict with others—or her conflicted sense of self?


ANSWER IN ICE FORMAT PLEASE



Poem: Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural,


able to slip from "How’s life?"


to "Me’stan volviendo loca,"


able to sit in a paneled office


drafting memos in smooth English,


able to order in fluent Spanish


at a Mexican restaurant,


American but hyphenated,


viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic,


perhaps inferior, definitely different,


viewed by Mexicans as alien,


(their eyes say, "You may speak


Spanish but y