The Soldier Of Mictlán Analysis

Death is a process of life that sooner or later everyone must face in due time. In his poem, “The Soldier of Mictlán,” Rigoberto Gonzalez describes the life of a soldier in the afterlife in a place called Mictlán, where most of the dead come according to Aztec mythology. His poetic techniques portray the fervent desire of an exhausted soldier to experience life again and leave behind the emptiness of the underworld. In the poem the rhyme is constant and in it is narrated as a true soldier asks for “bread for his hand,” “a piece of cheese” to smell and “a woman” to love with his heart (6-7,8). All that the soldier desires are considered pleasures of living beings, all that with which our senses are used. Therefore, the speaker