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Annotation : Identify 1 literary device , quote the evidence and explain the evidence for each stanza. There are 5 stanzas. Find for  each stanza. 

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Annotation : Identify 1 literary device , quote the evidence and explain the evidence for each stanza. There are 5 stanzas. Find for  each stanza. 

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Q1: What are your impressions of the speaker in the poem Golden Mother? Write 1 PEEAL paragraph with 2 evidences

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Q1: What are your impressions of the speaker in the poem Golden Mother? Write 1 PEEAL paragraph with 2 evidences

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Q2:How does the poet convey his feelings so powerfully to you in the poem? Write 1 PEEAL Paragraph with 2 evidences.

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Q2:How does the poet convey his feelings so powerfully to you in the poem? Write 1 PEEAL Paragraph with 2 evidences.

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In stanza 1, the repetition in "Mother, o mother" highlights the poet missing his mother greatly, further underlining how much he yearns his mother, his home, and wants to go back home. Thus, it is evident that he is extremely homesick as he longs to see his mother who is back home again.

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in stanza 5 the post uses metaphor

the work place the poet is at is being compared to a blank desert. a blank desert is hard survive without any help just like the work place the poet is in, longing for the help from his mother in bangladash

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the diction 'uncountable' and 'thousands' emphasizes the amount of pain and suffering that Mukul felt. In 'Uncountable pain, wails by the thousands.', the diction shows that Mukul feels indescribable amounts of pain, wails by the thousands are like remarks or shouts by the people. Thus, he despises Singapore as he feels a lot of pain and hates the snark remarks there.

i do the wrong one here is stanza 4

'Whenever I think of you, I cannot reach you.' The repetition of you highlights that in his mind, he is always thinking about his family and feels very bitter that he cannot come back to Bangladesh to be together with his family and feels very homesick. Thus, the repetition highlights how much he misses his parents and his desire to return back.

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stanza 5

the literary device used is a simile. "like a swallow, I am waiting" the simile is used to compare the writer to a swallow. swallow birds are often seen waiting in anticipation, typically for food from their parents. This means that the writer is eagerly waiting for his mother.

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In stanza 1, "I'm not myself anymore" displays contast from comparing with his past self without such a painful, stressful life and his present life working overseas as a migrant worker to earn money for his family.

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stanza 5: stanza 5 uses a simile in "to hear the call from you like a swallow" this simile expresses how the poet misses his mother and longs to hear the mothers voice again. this highlights how he feels homesick.

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quote: "wandering the blank desert"

device: visual imagery

explanation: the visual imagery of a blank desert mentioned displays the torturous and bleak life the speaker experiences in Singapore. The blank desert highlights the emptiness he feels while in singapoire. the picture of him wandering shows how he feels lost and out of place walking on foreign land

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in stanza 4 the guy uses imagery device. The stanza tears from the corner of my eyes. He is sad.

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5Stanza 4

literary device: enjambment

evidence: "Tears from the corner of my eyes/whenever i think of u/but cannot reach u"

explanation: The run-on sentences evokes empathy towards the poet as he misses his mother. The poet is desperate to go back to his mother and go home.

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The literary device used is visual imagery, in "I weep alone mother". This highlights that the author is very sad working in Singapore, and yearns to go back to Bangladesh. He does not want to stay in Singapore to work, as he misses his mother and finds it tough to be working in Singapore, hence, he cries and would do anything to go back. The author finds himself lonely in Singapore, and wants to feel a sense of family presence, and more importantly, a sense of home.

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stanza 5

the poet feels homesick

literary device: simile

evidence: like a swallow

explanation: the poet misses home and is constantly waiting for his mother's call so that he can feel less homesick. he also misses his family members but cannot go back to Bangladesh as he has to earn money. "like a swallow" highlights that the poet is constantly waiting for a call from its family

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Imagery. The imagery of "looks" in "nobody looks at me" shows that many people thinks of him lowly and barely gives him any attention. Some people also despise them due to being a construction worker.

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The poem states "wandering the blank desert" This visual imagery shows that Singapore is a very hopeless place to the poet where he cannot find a better life, even though that was what he believed at first

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"wandering the blank desert"

visual imagery of being lost in an empty desert--> (desert--> hot and sunny like sg's weather), evokes feelings of loneliness, isolation and desperation to find a way out.

The speaker yearns to return home and go back to his family, he feels lost and isolated in a foreign country. He doesn't know anyone here, and is exhausted from working, he just wants to give up.

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literary device: rhyming

the writer is suggesting the uncomfortable weather in Singapore by using the metaphor" in the bottomless heat of this distant land, life burns towards its end." this shows how much the writer dislikes the weather and the longing for returning home. He tells his mother how much he doesn't like the weather and how hard it is to be a construction worker

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In stanza 1, the poet uses repetition. The repetition of 'Mother' three times illustrates how much his Mother meant to him, one that is everything to him, which shows he deeply he misses and love his Mother. He could not bear to leave his Mother and remembers his close relationship with his Mother. Going to a foreign country alone makes it even more tiring and painful.

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The repetition of mother highlights how much he misses his mother as well as home. In the poem he says that he misses home but every time he goes back home his parents send him back here. He also has no friends here and is feeling in need of love from his family.

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the poet uses visual imagery. " Tears from the corner of my eyes" this suggests how he gets emotional everytime he thinks of his mother. this further underlines how he longs to go back home. therefore it shows that he is homesick and misses his mother and home.

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In stanza 5, the simile is used in " To hear the call from you like a swallow" Which is used when the writer is homesick and wants to return home to Bangladesh and is waiting for his mother's "call "to come back home away from Singapore.

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Stanza 1 The device used is repetition. The poet's continuous repetition of the word " Mother" highlights that the poet misses his mother extremely and longs for her to be with him. He seems to be homesick as he wants to see his mother and desperately wants to go home and rejoin his family.

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There is diction used in the second stanza of the poem. The diction 'bottomless ' is used to illustrate the deep, unending heat of the distant land. It conveys the poet's hopelessness of being in a distant land and his struggle to adjust to the new environment. This makes it clear that he faces hardship when adjusting to the new working environment.

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The poet uses imagery in stanza 2. The poem states "In the bottomless heat of this distant land, life burns towards its end." The visual and tactile imagery illustrates the overwhelming intensity of heat and a isolated place.

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stanza 2

Diction of "end" in "life burns towards its end"highlights how he dreads being in Singapore to the point that he thinks his life is ending here.His dislike for Singapore is evident in the hyperbole"bottomless"in"bottomless heat of this distant land

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STANZA 4

The speaker is homesick for his mother. The visual imagery, "whenever I think of you, but cannot reach you" underscores the speaker's longing to be with his family. The speaker feels sorrowful whenever he thinks of his mother because he misses her and wants to see her yet he cannot be with her. Him thinking of her represents his strong desire to meet her again, while him not being able to reach her suggests his despair and firustation.

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The diction "alone" in "I weep alone mother" emphasises that the author is feeling social isolation and loneliness.

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It is first evident from, "where are you?" The tone of the poet is very sentimental and holds a sense of longing for his 'mother'. Having gone to another country to work, the poet expresses his nostalgia and homesickness as he misses his family member back at home. This suggests that the poet misses his hometown and that he wants to go back home, despite having to work as the sole bread winner of his family.

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In stanza 3, the hyperbole "bottomless heat" highlights that the poet feels that Singapore, where he works, is very hot, and the heat is very unbearable. It highlights the suffering the poet faces under the heat of Singapore.

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The literary device simile from "to hear the call from you like a swallow." This means that he is waiting very long