Question

Como tu, I am either a mirage living among these faces and streets that raised me here, or I'm nothing, a memory forgotten by all I was taken from and can't return to again. The poem's language in lines 23 and 27 suggests the speaker feels:

A. Disconnected from American society and his cultural heritage
B. Disappointed he rejected his parents' culture to be American
C. Disoriented when he tries to travel from one place to another
D. Disengaged from things he loves but that also make him sad.

Answer 1

The poem's language in lines 23 and 27 suggests that the speaker feels option A. disconnected from American society and his cultural heritage.

Step-by-step explanation:

The poem's language in lines 23 and 27 suggests that the speaker feels disconnected from American society and his cultural heritage.

The use of phrases such as 'The impalpable sustenance of me from all things at all hours of the day' and 'The similitudes of the past and those of the future' indicate a sense of being detached and separated from both his present surroundings and his cultural roots.

The speaker feels like a mirage, a memory forgotten by those he was taken from and unable to return to his previous life.