Fredrick.O. Adeyemi The Immigrant Experience and the Way out “Puerto Rican Obituary” is a poem about Puerto Rican immigrants and their misfortune in hope of finding the American dream. Pedro Pietri uses the poem to urge the immigrants to maintain their identity rather than re-birth themselves into the American culture which has nothing to offer them. He encourages them to keep their language and culture and promote relations among themselves in order to build a community. Pietri encourages the immigrants to keep their language alive.
Odysseous did not collapse into temptaion and begin killing of his suitors, instead he his in disguise and waiting for the right moment, Odysseous also defied temptaion when he did not reveal himself to the people around him, instead waited it out. Temptation is not the only thing to obstruct our expedition. We all face obstacles, like Odysseous. A common obstacle we face is when we find someone we cannot compare to or get along with. A good example of this is when Odysseous had to evade the Cyclpos.
This technique also gives an interesting perspective of how many middle easterners view the western world. Although this poem describes the experiences of a specific group of people—Middle Eastern immigrants—the message applies to everyone who has experienced regret and unfulfilled expectations. Every couple of lines the author begins with a simple, non-specific statement such as “we think”, that, when looked at as a whole tell an entirely different story. The deeper meaning in this poem lies in the repetition between the lines. The lines “We think…we wish…we forget…then, we arrive…we turn away…we look [for a connection to what is now lost]…we miss” show how mislead ideas can cause people to yearn for what they think will bring satisfaction.
Thoreau also expresses his feelings towards belonging, describing it as being “wearisome and dissipating”, and repeating at various stages the word “alone”, emphasising his desire to in fact not belong, in contrast to ‘Postcard’ and ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’, where Peter Skrzynecki articulates his urge to connect with his cultural heritage and gain a sense of
Critique of “Imagining the Immigrant” In John Savant’s article “Imagining the Immigrant,” he implies that to fully understand the situation of immigration, we must imagine ourselves in the immigrant’s situation. The purpose of Savant’s article is to make his reader think and try to imagine what an immigrant goes through. Savant wants his readers to understand that immigration is something people do when they are seeking a better life here in America and when they have run out of options. He goes on to say that “Law and morality are not always commensurate”(1), meaning just because the law says immigration should be a certain way does not mean that that is the correct way morally to handle the situation. And although Savant makes a persuasive argument, he fails to tell both sides of illegal immigration.
cathouse . . .” his tone of voice and the choice of Steinbeck’s punctuation makes it clear he could see the emptiness of the freedom he claimed to be losing by being with Lennie. Being alone would make him another victim of the cyclical structure and reduce him to be an ordinary migrant worker. When he says ‘I want you to stay with me’ suggests leading and supporting Lennie gave meaning to George's life, along with some sense of power and control.
By paying close attention, we see that at the end of all three stanzas in this poem, Longfellow used refrain by repeating the same line. This also gives us a hint on understanding the repeating path of the nature. I believe that the poem is also trying to tell us that there are different experiences in peoples’ lives. Some of them are good some bad, some of them are happy some sad, and some of them are for crying some for laughing. I think the poet is trying to tell us that we shouldn’t worry a lot in our lives cause after bad and difficult moments there are good and happy moments in our lives.
Through the form of a verse novel he supports the idea that all humans seek a sense of belonging, and that without it our lives have little meaning. Yet Herrick also subverts some conventional understandings of belonging by showing that belonging can come from strange and unexpected situations, and is not just limited to one place or one person. Herrick conveys all of this through the different perspectives of Billy, Old Bill and Caitlin; employing a range of verse and narrative techniques to show their gradual sense of
In his poem 'Mending Wall', Robert Frost presents to us the ideas of barriers between people, communication, friendship and the sense of security people gain from barriers. His messages are conveyed using poetic techniques such as imagery, structure and humor, revealing a complex side of the poem as well as achieving an overall light-hearted effect. Robert Frost has ingeniously intertwined both a literal and metaphoric meaning into the poem, using the mending of a tangible wall as a symbolic representation of the barriers that separate the neighbors in their friendship. The theme of the poem is about two neighbors who disagree over the need for a wall to separate their properties. Not only does the wall act as a divider in separating estates, but also acts as a barrier in the neighbors’ friendship, thus separating them.
This helps to convey to his audience that Eminem is needed by him to bring him to the brighter future of what he wants to become. Another example of the use of imagery is “This fuckin black cloud still follows” (Stanza 6, Line 14) which illustrates that his past or present troubles still haunt him, this then allows the audience to realize that he hasn’t become as clean and focused as he had intended. Eminem expresses him self in this poem quite personally, relating to his desire to change. “You won’t take the sting out of these words before I say 'em” (Stanza 3, Line 2) is another example, which signifies how eager he is to change before his troubles overtake him. As the poem is investigated further, there are many more diverse literary techniques found within Eminem’s writing.