In reviewing the poem Isla, written in 2000, by Virgil Suarez, I can say that this is the first poem I have reviewed for this class with which I can honestly relate. The fact that the poem was written during a time period when I was living is great. Additionally, the images that the author brings to light are from items that I have seen with my own two eyes. With that said, I do not need to use my imagination to see and, for me, that is a disappointment. What is more, before this course I hated poetry and never read it. Now I feel that I have a better understanding of what and how to read this literature. I have become a fan of poetry. (Not a big fan, but average.)
The first two images that stand out for me are in the first stanza. “In Los Angeles I grew up watching The Three Stooges,The Little Rascals, Speed Racer, and the Godzilla movies.” (Suarez,2007) Unfortunately, the image of all of this is not one of imagination. I grew up watching all four of the shows listed, The Three Stooges,The Little Rascals, Speed Racer, and the Godzilla movies. I also spent a lot of my childhood in Southern California (Pomona) which is not very far from Los Angeles. In all honesty, these were great times with great memories. However, as I said, this is real life reading.
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The next two images in this poem that were a trip down my memory lane were “I sat in front of the TV, transfixed by the snow-fizz on our old black and white, and when Godzilla bellows his eardrum-crushing growl, I screamed back.” (Suarez,2007).
This takes me to my childhood of having only a black and white TV which only received about three channels. The remote control was my father yelling at me to leave my bedroom to come change the channel with the pliers because the knob only lasted about 3 days after the TV was bought. This also brings to mind that our family would gather in the living room every Saturday night which was spent watching a scary movie; this included several Godzilla
movies. In closing, I really do not like the poem “Isla” for the following reason: One of my greatest pleasures in reading of any type of literature is that it takes me to my place and when I say my place, I mean when my imagination runs amuck and I can be selfish and give myself the illusion that even though a million people can read the exact same book, they are never taken to the place my mind sees. Virgil Suarez (2007) “Isla” from Guide to the Blue Tongue. Retrieved from http://msrolfe.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Isla-by-Virgil-Su%C3%A1rez-_-The-Poetry-Foundation.pdf
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Isla, a poem written by author Virgil Suarez, in 2000, refers to how a young immigrant boy feels, compared to Godzilla. Godzilla, is a series of movies about a “fictitious giant monster spawned from the waste of nuclear tests, and is discovered in the sea and rises to threaten Japan. The only hope of stopping Godzilla is the oxygen destroyer, a weapon as deadly and as morally troubling as the atomic bombs that created the monster”(Encyclopaedia Britannica,2017). Poet Virgil Suárez left Cuba with his family when he was just 12. His family eventually settled in the United States(poetryfoundation.org, n.d). Virgil Suarez is comparing himself to Godzilla. He feels lonely and unwanted ,and how he had known this pain from an early age.