Mientras tú is a story about a typical housewife in the 1900’s dreaming about a more adventurous life. While Hombre pequeñito is a symbolic poem dealing with feminism. Both poems, Mientras tú y Hombre pequeñito have many similarities, such as themes dealing with feminism, each poem talks about it in different ways.
Mientras tú is a poem about a housewife who’s bored with her average life and bad husband. In the poem we find out the husband cheats and lies to his wife. The wife is also forced to do all the housework and take care of the kids. We find out how the wife dreams of living an adventurous life, but is too scared to actually leave her husband.