The Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, An Intelligent,

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The ship that will never dock.
El barco que nunca atraca.”
In the first two lines, “I feel I am a captive aboard the refugee ship,” the narrator uses this comparison of a captive and the refugee ship to express how she is incapable of ever truly arriving at one culture because in her blood is a mix of the two, something the narrator has not quite come to terms with yet because she is instead focused on the hopelessness of her situation. The last two lines are also interesting. The way Cervantes ended this poem shows the readers how she is of both cultures. She includes both Spanish and English to end the poem, representing her two identities. Moreover, in the poem, “Poem For The Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, An Intelligent, Well-Read