Migratory Birds
Journey is the act of traveling from one place to another. It can also mean the exploration and discovery of the inner-self. One must first indulge through obstacles and challenges while in this journey, requiring courage, determination, endurance and making choices that can be life altering.
Migratory Birds is a poem written by Yota Krili-Kevans, it has been thoroughly put together to summarize a physical journey that she has come face to face with while teaching her first year of E.S.L students. This poem is an example of a physical journey filled with adventures, racism, obstacles, challenges and overcoming differences. Krili-Kevans has purposely titled the poem Migratory Birds to emphasis the similarities between the students and the migrate birds. This is the first metaphor used in the poem to represent the migrant students who have travelled to Australia either
...due to their unstable living conditions, war, in need of education or for a safety secured future.
Imagery is a strong technique that she uses to project how the students feel during this stressful time and to display their emotions towards their new homeland. Krili-Kevans also uses language techniques including metaphors, similes, direct quotes and diction to create an atmosphere filled with darkness, fear, confusion and displacement for the children.
Krili-Kevans carefully choses words such as carefree fledglings, warm embrace, distant summers to create warm, enlightening images that come to mind. Also in Stanza 1 she has placed the line …Crystal Mountains near the mother-springs… to depict imagery that presents their homeland as a safe haven. With these warm and cosy descriptive words casting a safety blanket over the migrants, this is abruptly snatched away as they didn’t
have enough time to savour their homeland with them being placed at a new country.
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