Through the use of language, critical discourse analysis studies hidden connection between society structure and discourse. Poems can be evaluated linguistically, and they can be seen as social practices. The current study looks at how the Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail uses figurative language in her poem "America". The current study intends to: recognize the most prevalent figurative language devices present in the chosen poem; find evidence of the poets' ideologies and views in the poem that is being analyzed; identifying the kinds of figurative language devices that are less frequently employed in the poems under investigation and determining whether the identity of the Iraqi-American poet has any impact on the figurative language figures she chooses to use in her poem ''America''. The present study concludes that Mikhail used "personification" more than other figures of speech, whereas alliteration, hyperbole, metonymy, pun, and litotes are less frequently utilized. The poet's ideologies and identity are clearly revealed in the analysis of the poem