Small Town with One Road, by Gary Soto :: Small Town with One Road

A. cognomen The title of this poem suggests that it is about a small country township with one road, most likely in the middle of nowhere. Very some people and very few things around for a person to do with their free time. B. Paraphrase We could be here. This is the valley and its highway which rabbits cant get crosswise but kids can. They jump to the store with sweetness on their tongues. They watch for fun. Dimes root from their palms to pay for the candies they obliterate on the way home. There are carve up of dogs and cats and chickens at the house. A pot bangs and water runs in the kitchen, beans are acquiring cooked for dinner. Brown soup for the the men who work the fields. No matter what race, its serious for anyone who does work in the fields. The cotton gin is a major operator in the money dream and the mill makes money for a wife-and peradventure my wife, who boxed peaches and plums and hoed her dads fields as a girl. We could go back. I could digest this easy job I have. Just talking and using a shovel, a hoe, a broom that takes everything away. All my fille does is worry. She touches my hand and we have snow cones from a roadside vendor in the shade period we look around. Behind sunglasses I see where I at one time was. A brow kid getting across the road. hes like me, I tell my daughter and she stops eating her snow cone. He looks twain was then leaps across the road where riches happen on flushedness tongues.C. ConnotationsThe poem is written in free verse with no hoarfrost or rhythm to be found. The speaker is seeing himself in individual elses actions like a flash back to the time when he was at that age. The poet uses a metaphor to describe the kids as Spectators of fun. Gary Soto also uses personification when he states that the, pot bangs and water runs... D. AttitudeThe speaker is a father, a actor of the fields. His attitude is one of childishness and relaxation. He is eating snow cones with his daughter and talking about when he was a kid and now as an adult. The attitude of the poet is that this is just the way of life in the small towns and the kingdom towns are pretty much all boring and monotonous.Small township with One Road, by Gary Soto Small Town with One RoadA. name The title of this poem suggests that it is about a small country town with one road, most likely in the middle of nowhere. Very few people and very few things around for a person to do with their free time. B. Paraphrase We could be here. This is the valley and its highway which rabbits cant get across but kids can. They jump to the store with sweetness on their tongues. They watch for fun. Dimes resolve from their palms to pay for the candies they eat on the way home. There are hemorrhoid of dogs and cats and chickens at the house. A pot bangs and water runs in the kitchen, beans are getting cooked for dinner. Brown soup for the the men who work the fields. No matter what race, its heavy(p) for anyone who does wo rk in the fields. The cotton gin is a major actor in the money dream and the mill makes money for a wife-and by chance my wife, who boxed peaches and plums and hoed her dads fields as a girl. We could go back. I could lag this easy job I have. Just talking and using a shovel, a hoe, a broom that takes everything away. All my daughter does is worry. She touches my hand and we eat snow cones from a roadside vendor in the shade charm we look around. Behind sunglasses I see where I once was. A brow kid getting across the road. hes like me, I tell my daughter and she stops eating her snow cone. He looks both was then leaps across the road where riches happen on red tongues.C. ConnotationsThe poem is written in free verse with no poetry or rhythm to be found. The speaker is seeing himself in soulfulness elses actions like a flash back to the time when he was at that age. The poet uses a metaphor to describe the kids as Spectators of fun. Gary Soto also uses personification when he states that the, pot bangs and water runs... D. AttitudeThe speaker is a father, a role player of the fields. His attitude is one of childishness and relaxation. He is eating snow cones with his daughter and talking about when he was a kid and now as an adult. The attitude of the poet is that this is just the way of life in the small towns and the kitchen-gardening towns are pretty much all boring and monotonous.