Speakers
True or false: Victor Hernandez Cruz is dead.
False
What's the rhyme theme?
There isn't one?
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
True or false: There is a rigid pattern to the stanza count
False
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 is the style of the poem?
Free verse
What is the main tone of the campesino?
Dark humor
Where did the Poet move to?
Spanish Harlem NYC
What does the grammar symbolize?
The chaotic nature of hurricanes
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