Poetry Analysis "Avocado Lake"
" Avocado Lake" By: Gary Soto Based off the title of the poem I predict the poem would be about a lake that is surrounded by Avocado plants and how the avocados always roll into the lake. In stanza one lines 1-2 talks about a body that is seen in the lake and lines 3-5 describes the type of body that is floating which is described as a child. In stanza two lines 6-8 talks about the dead body of the child has been there for a while and how even trying to revive him would not even make a difference because his lungs are full of water and lines 9-10 describes how the skin of the body was peeling and how the dead child's finger was curled up. Stanza three lines 11-12 describes how it is a new day and a girl that is at the shore by the dead body and lines 13-15 talks about how the dead body was a friend of the girls and how the dead body has gone down to the bottom of the lake; also in line 14 it describes h...
