Comparing Warsan Shire's Home 'And Dennis Brutus' Nightsong

Poetry expresses an individual’s emotions in the least amount of words. Poets uses poems to express something good or bad that they experienced and that somehow is related to their life. Home by Warsan, the author to describe what immigrants go through in their country and why immigrants leave their home. Nightsong: city by Brutus, the author describes the bad conditions in which people in Africa are living. In Warsan Shire’s “Home” (2015) and Dennis Brutus “Nightsong: city: (1694), both poets employs personification, metaphor, and simile to illustrate that home is not always a safe place. There is always something that will make you leave home.

Both poets uses personification to give a human characteristic to a non human objects in their