https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet en-us 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC 2019-04-09 10:58:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Simplehouse.png jhowe68 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080168 A free-verse confessional poem - a quiet voice, as though the poet is talking to herself.]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080168 jhowe68 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080170 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.]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080170 jhowe68 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080171 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)]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080171 jhowe68 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080172 Sensory imagery: "the soft noise / of saris flapping in the wind."]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080172 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080173 Repetition: "But I am the one who always goes away" ]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080173 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080174 Animation:"come back, come back" ]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080174 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080175 Onomatopoeia: "saris flapping in the wind"  ]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080175 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080176 'Coconuts were flung from Juhu beach' - setting the theme / place.]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080176 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080177 If you are unsure about your sense of self (dual identities ect.) is it possible to belong?]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080177 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080179 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]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080179 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080180 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]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080180 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080181  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. ]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080181 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080182 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

]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080182 lpengilley https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080183 "But I am the one who always goes away"- call and response to quote, personalised. ]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080183 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080184 'Look' - in larger font and has it's own line to emphasize its importance.]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080184 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080185 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"

]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080185 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080186 "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. ]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080186 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080187 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]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080187 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080188 In order to choose a final path to take, one might be indecisive and confused but may find the true place where they belong. ]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080188 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080189 "saris flapping in the wind" 
kinaesthetic imagery ]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080189 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080190 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. ]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080190 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080191 In order to discover where we belong and our real identity, we have to learn from our history.]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080191 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080192 Can ones idea of belonging be distorted?
'And the ocean lives in the bedroom']]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080192 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080193 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.]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080193 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080194 Her previous homes, once she has left them become deserted, even if there are people there. 'Look at the deserted beach']]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080194 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080195 Home isn't determined by place or even physical association but rather a personal sense of acceptance ]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080195 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080196 Personification, Imagery - Personification
'when the sea is unmasked she's no beauty queen.'
The ocean as a woman.]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080196 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080197 the poet is a person who is transient. She is always moving and this is evident in the rhythm and movement in the poem.]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080197 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080198 Imagery - Metaphor
Home is not real, there is no literal home, it is metaphorical. 
'but I managed to hide my home behind my heart']]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080198 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080200 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]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080200 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080202 Theme-Allienation,Belongingness,
identitycrisis,inbetweeness  and routelessness.

]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080202 https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080206 nomadic (wandering)]]> 2019-03-17 06:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pugazhin202/wsvcftsw3oet/wish/342080206