Summary Of The Poem 'Isla'

In Suárez's poem, "Isla" the speaker uses a few imagery and descriptive phrases to develop sympathy in me as a reader. The phrase “The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals, Speed Racer, and the Godzilla movies” has a meaning to the poem, which is why they are written at the beginning of the poem (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012). The Three Stooges represents consistently making bad decisions while making a mess out of everything. The Little Rascals represents a group of mischievous troublemakers. Speed Racer represents racing to win. Godzilla is a very large destructive lizard, but also represents a massive crowd of people leaving one country by crossing the ocean and immigrating to another country. As a reader, the immigrant experience can be