Analysis Of El Barco Que Barca Atraca

The final stanza has the speaker exploring the thought that she is “captive aboard the refugee ship” because she is still trying to differentiate between the two cultures. She comes to realize that she is in an eternal intermediate phase. Because she cannot truly assimilate to the English culture and she does not identify wholeheartedly with the Spanish culture, the speaker is in between two places never having the chance to reach her final purpose. This is the “ship that will never dock” because she is just there existing. At this point, the hopelessness that is within is exposed for the world to see as there is nowhere else to turn. “El barco que nunca atraca” literally means “the ship never docked” in Spanish which expresses the speaker