The theme of Julio Noboa Polanco's extended metaphor poem "Identity" is freedom through individuality. Throughout the poem, Noboa Polanco contrasts individuality and conformity by juxtaposing two kinds of plants: weeds and flowers. These two images serve as metaphors for two kinds of lives
is a poem about a singular identity awash in a constrained group culture. The poem starts by comparing unnamed individuals to flowers. Let them be as flowers, always watered, fed, guarded, admired, but harnessed to a pot of dirt. These flowers have what they want. Identity is what makes you different, special from the rest in society. Identity is having distinctive characteristics, ones no one else has, it is having unique qualities, and that’s what Julio Noboa Polanco expresses in his poem “Identity”. Noboa compares two type of plants, weeds and flowers.
