Analyzing The First Mexican-American Laureate Poet Ada Limón’s Poem "How to Triumph Like a Girl" through Literary Lens

The masterpiece research work is stunning success in the realm of English literature, because earlier no research is done on the Mexican-American Laureate Poetess Ada Limón’s poetry. The study aims to analyze the literary devices and usage of these devices in Limon’s poem "How to Triumph Like a Girl". This poem is Limón’s opening poem in her acclaimed collection Bright Dead Things, published in 2015 by Milkweed Editions. This poem is selected to collect literary devices used in this poem. The content analysis approach was used for data collection and collected data was presented in the tables. The results reveled that Limon used metaphors, similes, personifications, imageries, apostrophes and dictions. These results are presented in the tables, in the end the researchers presented some recommendations and direction for upcoming researchers and scholars which makes study valuable.