This line really reminded me of the Spanish Inquisition again , because it's known that they said these exact words again and again and tortured people until they did eventually confess to something. It makes me think that this person may feel like making something up, so that they can just get this questioning over with.

The word confession reminds me of the Spanish Inquisition. It also reminds me of law enforcement agencies. Questioning. Inquisitions. Confession rooms.

I feel that this is a reference to being arrested. An image of having to prove bodily that you mean no harm, a muteness because any sound might be taken as antagonizing. It's also a metaphor, because people can feel as though everyone is watching them and waiting for a mistake, like everyone is the "police." It shows a fear of safety.

sounds religious again. This is reminding me of all the missionaries who went to other countries and treated the peoples poorly in their own countries even. Why is there an idea about being happy that is unGodly, I have never understood this.

Again, the ominous voice brings up stealing. What is that leaping in your chest? Bringing to mind the earlier word dancing. This seems to be asking has this person come to America and then felt a part of it. Is that what the speaker is finding offensive? It could be that the speaker just finds anyone enjoying themselves offensive, but here they are in a moment of power.

light opposes dark, so whatever images came up with dark describing the people, it seems to proclaim that they are consuming the light. It shows a separation, a sharp contrast.

This line immediately brought to mind a parallel pertaining to "by whose power" were sent, the first thought I had was that it was asking if God had sent? But after reading the title, I wonder if the question is about what country sent?

this would be a very ridiculous thing for someone to ask and impossible to answer, because we can't demand anybody "feel" anything. It's offensive, setting up the situation that the other person in this situation needs to be defensive. It's extremely unfriendly, when feelings should be friendly and that shouldn't need to be demanded.

the "night" is a secretive time

I think it is here that the point of view changes, now the questioned is asking the question, and thereby taking back some power. However, it still displays that there is little agency to stand up for one self, because "to whom can we appeal?" and because of a language barrier, or financial, or "connection barrier" there appears to be no one who could help if help should be needed. The "help" is the enforcement agency who appears to be like the "Spanish Inquisition" in the eyes of the ones needing help. This is clearly a system that does not work.

ghosts are a people not belonging generally, because they are not of the earth and not of heaven, they are sort of in between. It is dehumanizing.

how does the individual appear afraid if they were dancing at first? what has happened to the listener during this line of questioning?

this connotes that the speaker is guilty

dark bodies connote dark skin tone, but also connote a "darkness" that pervades literature as a term meaning mysterious

dancing is a positive and happy activity, expressive

the placement of the word steal is significant because you can't steal "concepts" and if someone from America is asking what someone else wishes to steal by coming here, isn't it the ultimate hypocrisy in that the first people who "came" to America "stole" it from people who were already here?

"see" could mean looking at a physical object, but also could be referring to an abstract concept.

Grace Pearson

Loose-tongued in that she is stating what is true but what is not "proper" and her punishment for doing so is to be called a "loose woman" and sexualized.

Languages combine, shows that there are many different cultures and languages in this situation.

Mexican American women face push-back from society in general in America, and also from their own culture that has ideals about women.

a reference to: sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. also a reference to a feeling of mob-like mentality from society for a woman that is powerful

the feminist experience. Do I hate men because I stand up for myself?

the sexualized experience

A question every girl is forced to ask after all the conflicting views, What is a woman? What am I? Am I what society says?

A statement that while she is called the "beast," it is other who benefits and "feasts" on calling her the other.

Reference to Virginia Woolf, and the library, the question of whether it is better to be locked out than locked in.

References to Virginia Woolf, and what she found in the library written about women, and foreign women.

Points out racism, it is a statement that all people from :rice countries" are seen as the same and known as that, being from a "rice country." There is much here about food and identity, stereotypes.

Harvesting grapes speaks to many immigrants that harvest food, which is a phenomenon in America still to this day.

A perspective that displays nakedly how an immigrant from another country would look at what is going on here.

By speaking of species and animals, the poet is calling attention to our own physical beings and state as animals, while also separating us as humans from animals.

By breaking down the name of Kring the student, she shows that his thoughts are not individual to him but shared by a group of people.

language is connected to country

language is universally human

When learning English, it must be odd to realize that a foreign citizen is called an "alien" which is the same word used to describe cartoon characters that are little green men in flying saucers from outer space.

Learning more than 1 second language

A reference to Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

A reference to Virginia Woolf's A Room of Ones Own