Poetry Analysis: Immigrants In Our Own Land by Jimmy Santiago Baca

During class our journal topic was what if all these things happen to us like we couldn't read or write and we had poison rattlesnake blood and we went to jail for drug possession. That sounds crazy already, however that did actually happen and that was Jimmy Santiago Baca who went through all that. He learn how to read and write and ended up writing poems and his poem Immigrants In Our Land which never made it seem like he never knew how to read or write. The poem was serious talking about the immigrants struggle coming to a country and how they had to go through all these things which was changing them into the "new world" custom the country they are going to and leaving their "old world" behind so their country leaving behind their customs. Also talking about the hardships that they all have to go through and them being categorize already into what they are and I like the poem because it didn't really say nice things like it said all the real things that actually happen that sound and are bad. I like the poem, because some people could relate to him and the things that he wrote about may have happen to them. He had similes and metaphors in his poems that were use really well and the imagery to was good that we could actually picture what he is talking about.