Mod A Asian poetry

Personification “Sparkled and Sang”

P ENam ““ Juxt CNam

“the other” & “slipped away”

Emph Initial Discon Malay Backgr

Lament Acculturation Inevitably Erodes CultID

Cumulative Rhetorical Question “Does this began to become me? Do I to it belong?”

Atmpt Reconnect Malay Heri CRQ““

Emph Dissonance Betw Nam and ID

Exemplify Difficulties Cult Assimilation 

Delib Incorr Gram Anxie Restor Belong DualID

Sound Motif “Translucent, slowly yielding music”

Deepnd Reson CNam SM““

Symb “yielding” Refle CultHeri Posi ID

“translucent” Allud Titl SoReslu

Restor Lost ID

Recurring Motif “this is where it begins”

RM““ Assrt B’s Lifelong Gravi

Stries Strlling Shap Ident

Repetition “This is where is begins. I am six years old, perhaps five”

Bikol, Filipino & Eng Establ MultiCult ID

Motif “Story, word, gesture. All under my skin”

Proxi Stries inhrt M““

Skin Smbls Outrmost Lay ID

Metaphrclly Dpct Flesh “under” skin

Illustr Endur Influen Stries & Lang Shap SoID

Metonymic Images “eyes, lips, hands conjoined: the umbilical cord restored”

MI “” Echo Wrds Mothr Pract Spani

TrlonFrams BodPar Interrelated

Matnl imgry “UCR”

Emph Strlling Condui Heri Sustain ID

Enjambment 

“New Accents” Feat Extensve E

Mrror Voice Migrant Narr

Attmpt Adapt Lang & Self ID

Assim NCult

Symbolism “When first arrived in Australia, they tried to fool me around because couldn’t speak ‘anguish’“

Fluidity of ID “” S Lang Barr

Accnt Sigfy CultIdent Hinder Immi Acceptnce 

Delib Mispronce "English” as “Anguish”

Duble Entendre, Dpct Emo Tmoil Assim NCult

Irony “And they, the professors, rightly, lost a genius in me, with their English and my Anguish”

Emo Strggle Result I Declr “”

Cntrst Betw “English” & “Anguish”

Satrclly Undscr Immi Voice Dsmissd

Emo Ang Prsists env lingui gatekping