Poetry+-+May+9


 * Field Poem**

//Gary Soto//

When the foreman whistled My brother and I Shouldered our hoes, Leaving the field. We returned to the bus Speaking In broken English, in broken Spanish The restaurant food, The tickets to a dance We wouldn’t buy with our pay. From the smashed bus window, I saw the leaves of cotton plants Like small hands waving good-bye.

Field poem analysis

In Field Poem the narrator talks reminisces about the field he and his brother worked in. The tone of the place seems to be reminiscent. The narrator is one of the workers on the field. Some of the language in the poem shows you that the workers are immigrants. An example of this language is when the narrator says, "In broken English, in broken Spanish". This shows that they were probably Mexican, and immigrated to America.