Experience of Immigration and the Heritage of Two Cultures Informs “Grandmother's Song” by Nellie Wong

Experience of Immigration and the Heritage of Two Cultures Informs “Grandmother's Song” by Nellie Wong

Introduction

Thesis Statement

“Immigration to foreign country is a stress between grandmother's wish for the future of their grandchildren and infatuated to their own past.”

Nellie Wong's poetry eligible “Grandmothers' Song” conveys the feelings grandmothers who have immigrated to a new nation have about their grand kids. The topic of the poetry is the connection between grandmothers' wants for their grand kids and a desiring for their social customs to be taken on. It is a difficult situation filled with psychological indecisiveness. The poem's reiteration remodel the significance of the collections to make a powerful and moving understanding of the complicated feelings indicated in the poetry.

Discussion

The metaphors evoked from the story work with the way of the pantoum to enhance the significance of the poetry (www.poeticon.com).The scheme of rhyme carefully changes from stanza to stanza, allowing for step-by-step building of glaze to type to a natural whole. There are half as many unique expressions because each line is heard twice (Strand & Boland 2001). The poem starts “Grandmothers sing their song.” This present tense declaration combines all grandmothers together to mourn their own time moving away and also show unconditional care for the next generations, especially their own child. “Grandchildren for whom they long” (lines 3 and 30) demonstrates the stress between grandmothers does wish to successfully pass down their knowledge and social lifestyle to the future generations and infatuated for their own past (Schakel & Ridl 2007). “Grandchildren for whom they long/ For pomelo-golden days” (line 3-4) demonstrates their hope for the grand kids to encounter their own fantastic times. (Schakel & Ridl 2007).

The pantoum seems to take one leap ahead and two actions returning (Strand and Boland 44). This makes natural sensation of moving interest between the last and existing, the same ideas modified in different lighting to indicate different viewpoints. “Blinded by the sun's rays” (lines 2 and 5) is the first repetition. It indicates diverse meaning while staying linked with the formerly established sense (Schakel & Ridl 2007). The granny originally is “blinded by the suns' rays” (line 2) with the memorial of “pomelo-golden days” from her child years (line 4) (Schakel & Ridl 2007).The elegance of remembrance, which places the landscape of looking in reverse which differ from the existing, ...