Identity By Julio Noboa Polanco

The poems “Identity,” written by Julio Noboa Polanco, and “The Road Not Taken,” written by Robert Frost express strong emotions about reflecting on past decisions and deciding new ones. In “Identity,” the author, Julio Noboa Polanco, compares flowers and weeds to show the types of people in the world. As said in lines 2 and 3, the flowers of the world are “Always watered, fed, guarded, admired, but harnessed in a pot of dirt.” In line 4, the author says “I’d rather be a tall, ugly weed, clinging on cliffs, like an eagle wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.” The lines show Polanco deciding to be ugly and free do whatever he wants, or be pampered and trapped all of his life.