Thursday, November 15, 2012

In the poem "Same Song" by Pat Mora, what does the title mean?Does the title just mean that even though the son and daughter are different, they...

Unfortunately, because there is no group for Pat Mora or
for this poem, I have to leave it in the overall Literature group. You sould as if you
have cracked the meaning of the poem, however. Clearly, the way that the poem is
structured in two stanzas, both of which deals with the two children of the speaker and
the different ways that they feel forced into practising behaviours that they don't
necessarily want to practise to satisfy the demands of society of their appearance and
the way they look. Note how both daughter and soon peer "into that mirror, mirror" and
frown at their appearance. Also I am sure you identified the allusion to the Sleeping
Beauty fairy tale, where the evil stepmother looks into the "mirror, mirror on the
wall," demanding to know if she is the most beautiful "of them all." Mora seems to be
bemoaning a society that causes children to take such an obsessive interest in their
looks and prevents them from being happy with themselves. Both girl and boy sing the
"same song."

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