Gary Soto Fog Poem Analysis

The Author’s story begins in Fresno, California where Gary Soto was born. Gary soto started off doing poetry in High school even though he wasn’t academically motivated when Soto was a child.”He was not academically motivated as a child, but became interested in poetry during his high school years”(poets.org). And soto went to Fresno City College and studied poetry. “He attended Fresno City college and California State University at Fresno while working toward an undergraduate degree, and later studied poetry at the University of California, Irvine, where he earned his MFA in 1976”(poets.org). And after college he wrote a poem and won an award which was published in 1977. “His first collection of poems, The Elements of San Joaquin, won the United States Award
Gary Soto ,an ordinary man from california, who has the passion for poetry and made it an amazing way to show the way of life through the art of poems and inspire others to make poems of their life.Gary soto created an excellent poem called Fog. It starts of in Fresno California on a foggy day where Soto is telling the reader to look out of their window.”If you look out your window you will notice a fog drifting in”(Poetryfoundation.org). Gary Soto expresses what is around him and puts it into the poem. When Gary Soto wrote Fog he said that in Fresno if you look out your window in 1974 you will see a fog.”If you look out your window you will notice a fog drifting in”(Poetryfoundation.org). Soto made one of these lines that tells the main idea that says “One hundred years from now there should be no reason to believe I lived”((Poetryfoundation.org).and in the poem Fog Soto wants to share his emotions and his surroundings by putting it into a short or long