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nomadic (wandering)

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Theme-Allienation,Belongingness,
identitycrisis,inbetweeness  and routelessness.

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The whole poem is an underlying oxymoron, with the fact that she was always changing, while staying at home, because home is in her heart

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Imagery - Metaphor
Home is not real, there is no literal home, it is metaphorical.
'but I managed to hide my home behind my heart'

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the poet is a person who is transient. She is always moving and this is evident in the rhythm and movement in the poem.

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Personification, Imagery - Personification
'when the sea is unmasked she's no beauty queen.'
The ocean as a woman.

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Home isn't determined by place or even physical association but rather a personal sense of acceptance

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Her previous homes, once she has left them become deserted, even if there are people there. 'Look at the deserted beach'

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At the end of the poem in the final stanza the author displays that her home is her body within herself, "in my blood". She feels at home wherever she is because she knows herself and her identity. The phrase "does not fit with any geography" gives away the idea that her home is not a place or a location but her body itself.

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Can ones idea of belonging be distorted?
'And the ocean lives in the bedroom'

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In order to discover where we belong and our real identity, we have to learn from our history.

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To belong to a place where our identity is common, it takes time to discover who we are and the type of surroundings that satisfy our belonging.

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"saris flapping in the wind"
kinaesthetic imagery

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In order to choose a final path to take, one might be indecisive and confused but may find the true place where they belong.

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Maybe part of you wants to be used and to go and explore whilst another part of you want to stay home with your family and what is familiar

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"I am the one who always goes away with my home ... my home which does not fit" The poet is displaced and doesn't know where she belongs.

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Home is not an actual  geographical place, rather an internal feeling or sense of belonging.
E.g. "But I never left home./I carried it away with me"

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'Look' - in larger font and has it's own line to emphasize its importance.

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"But I am the one who always goes away"- call and response to quote, personalised.

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the poem suggests that home is an internal idea- 'but i managed to hide, my home behind my heart' which emphasises her connection to her home and the love which she will always have. It also infers that she felt very strongly to her home and however being away she belonged somewhere before and will always belong there

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Bittersweet departure is suggested as she is fearful of what lies ahead and how that could possibly change or weaken her deep sense of belonging.

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Sense of self is tested and challenged when people move from one place to another trying to create and be apart of various communities and creating tangible links with others due to that

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Lots of deeper ideas hidden in the  simplistic language . e.g "but i never left home, i carried it away" meaning her sense of belonging to her home isn't just a far away destination but a part of her in her heart

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If you are unsure about your sense of self (dual identities ect.) is it possible to belong?

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'Coconuts were flung from Juhu beach' - setting the theme / place.

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Onomatopoeia: "saris flapping in the wind"

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Animation:"come back, come back"

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Repetition: "But I am the one who always goes away"

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Sensory imagery: "the soft noise / of saris flapping in the wind."

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As "the one who goes away”, the poet is displaced, detached (not pushed away, not actively rejecting home, but involved in a defining process of continual change)

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This is a poem about the immigrant experience: some of those who migrate may be wanderers by nature, never truly at home in any place and always yearning to change their world for another world.

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A free-verse confessional poem - a quiet voice, as though the poet is talking to herself.