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A Study Guide for Gary Soto's "Small Town with One Road," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Gary Soto's "Small Town with One Road" - Gale
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Small Town with One Road
Gary Soto
1990
Introduction
Small Town with One Road
first appeared in Poetry magazine and was reprinted in Gary Soto’s sixth collection of poetry, Who Will Know Us? in 1990. Written in conversational free verse, Small Town with One Road
is a first-person meditative narrative that details the speaker and his daughter’s visit to a town very much like the one in which he grew up. Standing alongside the town’s one road, the speaker reminisces about his past and contemplates the difficulty children face in getting out of that town and the life of hard work and poverty that the town represents. Thinking about his own childhood, the speaker (a version of the poet himself) realizes that the escape he made from such a town could be undone, and he could lose his present easy
job and again end up living the kind of hard, migrant-labor life that he now describes others living. The poem’s visual and symbolic imagery underscores the meditative nature of the poem. The work’s resulting dream-like quality also contributes to the speaker’s tone, which is one of both wonder and gratitude: wonder at life and its relation to time, and gratitude that he was able to lead a life other than the one that he remembers and describes. The daughter functions both as the
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