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Mexico

A driving force in many peoples lives are their dreams. Not the dreams we have in the middle of the night, but our every day hopes and dreams that direct our lives. Successes we need to make guide us and journey's we have not yet taken lure us. The prospect that one can make a fresh start in life works hand in hand with this concept. In some cases our dreams provide a needed escape from the day to day existence we all know so well. Richard Shelton writes of just such escape in his 1978 poem "Mexico"

The subject of the poem takes this escape regularly, "once a year"(line1). Every April, the male persona of the poem is drawn powerfully to the south. After researching Shelton I learned that he loved the southwest and Mexico, and traveled extensively throughout both areas. With that information I am convinced that the voice of the poem is his own. This draw is not light or passing, in fact, "it hits like a shovel". The effects are nearly intoxicating, enveloping all of the senses. He is "stunned into believing anything is possible"(line6,7). Just as it is sure that a new day will dawn, the answer to happiness for this man lies south of the border.

This draw is sparked merely by looking at the sky. The guiding light for


The first four stanzas of the poem culminate quickly in the fifth stanza. Here the journey begins. He is finally heading south to the unknown destination of his dreams. His heart is in it and he has the same attitude about what he is leaving behind. The symbolism here is that of freedom as related to birds. He uses the image of his "last chances flapping their wings"(line26). There is a certain desperation seen in this. He sees this as one of his last chances in the search for the happiness he yearns for. It appears that all of the natural creature's "birds of passage" are heading to opposite direction, away from his final destination. This can be seen as him taking the road less traveled or going against the grain of society.

The last stanza of the poem shows some true realization.

with my ugliness intact"(line 29-31).

and each time I return older

of monkeys with harpsichords"(line 21-24).

plays some role in his life. He asks,



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