Us - Zaffar Kunial

Direct address - engages the reader

Wave imagery

we can, if we try, join together move and make connections between seemingly impossible things

Arrest - reaching out between boarders (bridge the gap)

As if, from one coast, you could reach out to/ the next;

Singled out for ethnicity

Caesura around you - emphasises the artificial separation - focuses on our differences

Colloquial language

‘Oi, you, tell us where yer from’

“Mexican wave” - emphasises idea of unity - all doing the same movement as a collective

Despite supporting opposite teams they are all unified by their love of the sport - even those on opposing sides can be brought together

and the way supporters share the one fate […] cresting the Mexican wave of we or us,

Physical and emotional separation

at opposite ends/ my heart’s sunk at separations of us,

Us not in italics - could me more personal rather than a microcosm for humankind as a whole

Expresses concerns but still remains optimistic

Boat imagery?

Is it the individual or the relationship

When it comes to us, colour me unsure./ Something in me, or it, has failed the course/

Anaphora - optimistic tone

Arrest enjambment - literally separates the two concepts (love v loss)

I hope you get, here, where I’m coming from./ I hope you’re with me on this – between love/ and loss –

Colloquial language

Ends on optimistic tone

Single, separate line - overarching idea/conclusion

extending his personal idea of us to all humankind and how we should all work to join together and that this isn’t a ‘fair-fetched’ idea

Unity

Us. I hope, from here on, I can say it/ and though far-fetched, it won’t be too far wrong