Does this reference really frame the poem for you?
Where do you imagine this taking
place?
Who is the speaker?
Paragraph 1
Sometimes a border sign‟s not
immediately visible
or it‟s printed in a language
you don‟t read
and you find yourself across
And into a foreign place without quite
knowing how you got there.
Without deciding, really, to go.
Paragraph 2
Dealing, as you now must,
in a language
you have yet to learn,
the greatest puzzle of all is how
you could slip right across
without challenge or passport,
but turn to leave
and the border snarls with guns
Paragraph 3
You know you‟ll never feel
really at home here,
and you miss the lost easy ways,
but you look, as you must,
for some shelter.
Resigned, you settle in.
o “…you find yourself across and into a foreign place
without quite knowing how you got there.”
o …you could slip right across without challenge or
passport, but leave and the border snarls with guns
o “You know you‟ll never feel really at home here”
o “…lost easy ways”
1. Can be viewed through the natives‟ lens
2. Can be viewed through the lens of
immigrants/those not „from this country‟
Which one do YOU think it is?
Seems sad
Doesn‟t seem like it happened.
Can‟t believe it did.
Begs the question: How could this have happened?
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