Poetic Imagery: Mi Abuelo by Alberto Rios

Out of the three poems, the first two hardly had but one or two symbols throughout. They were so short, that they hardly had enough time to get but a small message across to the reader, or atleast that's how I saw it. However, Alberto Rios's "Mi Abuelo" had many images which made my brain tingle with excitement for writing this paper. Besides the fact that it had the most imagery, it also was the …

…poem about the grandson paying his respect to his grandfather. I am usually pretty good at understanding deep meanings to a phrase, but Rios is a very, very deep writer. I had a very hard time evaluating this poem, and tried to use the internet as a reference to a few of the sayings like "chew the ground next to her feet." The only pages I came up with were the poem word for word.