Compassion in Poetry

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This paper explores the different levels of compassion that are expressed through Mary Oliver's "Singapore" and Jimmy Baca's "So Mexicans are taking Jobs from Americans?" Oliver's poem expresses how one can gain compassion for the less fortunate, while Baca's poem shows how man can have a total lack of compassion for the less fortunate.

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"Baca uses an interesting method in his poem by responding to the title as if it were a topic for debate. The first half of the poem is a sarcastic response to the title where Baca gives Mexicans the appearance of being muggers who rob jobs from the American people. This portion has little meaning in the theme that the economically stable have a lack of compassion for the economically stressed but uses sarcasm to achieve the authors point."

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