Speakers
True or false: Victor Hernandez Cruz is dead.
False
True or false: There is a rigid pattern to the stanza count
False
to suffer a mango smashing your skull
a plantain hitting your temple at 70 miles per hour
How many speakers are there?
2 (Narrator and the campesino)
Where was the Poet born?
Aguas Buenas Puerto Rico
What is the style of the poem?
Free verse
Bananas flying through the air like flying projectiles is an example of what?
Simile
True or false: Early in the poem, the speaker shifts from third person to second person
True
True or False: Victor Hernández Cruz didn’t publish his first collection of poems until he was in his late twenties and had finished university.
False, he was only 17.
What's the rhyme theme?
There isn't one?
The poet uses repetition by naming these specific fruits over and over again, to warn the reader.
What is the main tone of the campesino?
Dark humor
Where did the Poet move to when he was 5?
Spanish Harlem NYC
What does the grammar symbolize?
The chaotic nature of hurricanes
Phrases like "a mango smashing your skull", or "hitting your temple" help create for the reader a painful and mental picture.
Imagery
What is Campesino in English?
Showing immense self-reliance at just 17 years old, Victor Hernández Cruz bypassed traditional publishing houses by using this office machine to print and self-publish his very first chapbook, Papo Got His Gun!
mimeograph machine
What is the structure a metaphor of?
Hurricanes
What is Juxtaposition? Name a good example found in the poem.