Pat Mora, a Chicana poet, wrote "Elena" as a young woman. It occurs in Mora's debut poetry collection, Chants (1984), which addresses the lives of Mexican-Americans.
Mora is interested in the lives of people who must negotiate many languages and cultures in that collection and throughout her work.
"Elena" is persona poetry in which the words or ideas of a well-defined speaker who is not the poet are presented. Elena is a Mexican-born woman who immigrated to the United States (US) with her spouse and kids.
Elena is determined to learn English since her children are increasingly communicating in it, and she tries to know them and be as connected to them as she was in Mexico.
The poem powerfully illustrates the psychological and linguistic problems that many immigrants endure as they cope with the changing life in the United States (US), particularly women from conventional backgrounds who must build drive and strength to break free from gender preconceptions.
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