Question

Immigrants
No ship of all that under sail or steam
Have gathered people to us more and more
But Pilgrim-manned the Mayflower in a dream
Has been her anxious convoy in to shore.

I want summary of this poem immigrant written by Robert Frost​

Answer 1

Explanation:

In this poem, Lee is trying to explain the struggles of immigrating to a new country. He also underlines the importance of silence by letting us pause and contemplate many times throughout it. Along with that, he doesn’t force his views upon us, instead, it’s like his inviting you to converse with him.

‘Immigrant Blues’ talks about and explores an array of identities. The author does this by coming up with a number of titles for the story, all trying to define the experience of being an immigrant. Likewise, he identifies himself in different roles throughout the story; starting out as the son, then the father, and finally the lover. Finally he also questions his personal identity and existence.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Immigrant is a short poem that focuses briefly on the observations of the speaker who is on a bridge looking at the birds in London's St James's Park, one of eight royal parks in the capital city.

The opening few words could be pulled straight out of someone's diary and the whole first line is a reference point, a measurement in time. The speaker is looking back, reminding herself of undisputed straight facts.

This is an autobiographical poem because Fleur Adcock did move to London in early 1963 from New Zealand, where she was born. However, although born in New Zealand, she spent most of her childhood in Britain, so has a dual identity, which makes for potential confusion.

Attempting to fit in and 'become' British, she wears typically British clothes - from Marks and Spencer's, the classic high street chain - but cannot yet speak in a proper British accent. She feels awkward, just like the pelicans, the foreign birds, on the lake.

As she herself explains:

'Immigrant' looks back from some years afterwards to the time when I first arrived in London from New Zealand feeling very foreign, in fact very colonial with my New Zealand accent which I hastened to get rid of, and my Marks & Spencers clothes - I was trying to pass as a genuine Londoner like so many others. I would walk around St James's Park sometimes at lunchtime and I would see the swans who were actual English birds on the lake, and the pelicans who were immigrants like me and I tended to identify with the pelicans.'

First published in 1979 in her book The Inner Harbour, Immigrant neatly sums up through use of metaphor how a person new to an alien culture might feel. On the outside a person might look like a native, dressing in the right clothes and so on, but inside they still might feel ambivalent and uncertain about their identity.

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