Immigrant Chronicle Peter Skrzynecki Analysis
Peter Skrzynecki Peter Skrzynecki explores his perceptions and ideas of belonging in the anthology of poems from “Immigrant chronicle”. The concept of belonging is conveyed through the represent action of people, relationship, ideas, place, events and societies. In the text responders may experience and understand all the facts of belonging or not belonging, this awareness may be influenced by the different ways perspectives are created through the voice of Peter Skrzynecki. The language techniques express and free verse structure his perception of belonging.
A sense of belonging comes through a connection to place. The place can be where you live, for example “10 Mary St” “like a well-oiled lock” is a simile that compares the “lock”to …show more content…
represent a link to place and well-oiled signifies how well something is maintained. In the “post card” “we will meet before you die” creates a sense of possible connection between the composer and Warsaw. So this is show that for a sense of the person needs to accept and understand his background. Finally, connection to place may be a feeling that you could create a sense of belonging. The Skrzynecki left their homeland of Poland lives behind and is on a course to an unknown future-Identity has been left behind, their old world has been left behind and they are anonymous homeless migrants in transition “watching pigeons that watched them”.
This shows connections to people seeking to create a sense of belonging, Belonging can enrich our identity and new relationships a can lead to acceptance with understanding. This poem conveys a melancholy atmosphere and a somber tone of apprehension. Skrzynecki uses metaphors to evoke responders sense of feelings of damp, cold and emptiness. These migrants are empty-traumatized by the scenes of violence in Europe and transported to this new country with a new language and a new way of life, on central station they are in limbo. Felix Skrzynecki is at peace, he made the best of his journey and finds contentment in the simple things, “Watching the stars and street lights come on, / Happy as I have never been.” This is quite a surprising yet strong statement, which suggests that the persona envies his father because he has never felt this contentment and fulfillment. Father and son perceive their attachment to place very differently “The wind tastes of blood” which express that only blood connection with their past, so they can’t identity and understand where they belonging …show more content…
to. The poems may create a sense of belonging to the wider world.
“Form the circle around you-to what star” shows the composer has used the image of the sky to link his ancestors to the present world. Over time the composer links the concept of belonging to the world. Where war has destroyed connections, the persona’s reflection, “I never know you” expresses the persona’s feelings of alienation from his culture; heritage and land of birth while the use of personification, “we will meet before you die” suggests his disconnection from the old world. The poet’s father, a gentle, determined, stoic and happy man who has faced obstacles and turmoil throughout his life but has kept a positive approach and remained strong. Peter is undoubtedly has a lot of respect for his father but realistically acknowledges the estrangement growing between them, his son living his own life in his own
world. Peter skrzynecki explores various aspects of belonging and not belonging in his poems. He uses language technique such as enjambment; simile, metaphor, and alliteration to skrzynecki broaden the reader’s concept of belonging through the medium of poetry. Peter skrzynecki also uses the theme of not belonging in his poem to contrast, and thereby better convey, his ideas on belonging. The poems explores the relationship between father and son and represent the son’s ideas about belonging by contrasting his immigrant father experience as a youth torn between two culturally different worlds while at the same time , exploring the alienation he feels from his father’s world with the sense of place of place purpose and clear identity his father has.
Katerine Wang 22/3/2010
A sense of belonging comes through a connection to place. The place can be where you live, for example “10 Mary St” “like a well-oiled lock” is a simile that compares the “lock”to …show more content…
represent a link to place and well-oiled signifies how well something is maintained. In the “post card” “we will meet before you die” creates a sense of possible connection between the composer and Warsaw. So this is show that for a sense of the person needs to accept and understand his background. Finally, connection to place may be a feeling that you could create a sense of belonging. The Skrzynecki left their homeland of Poland lives behind and is on a course to an unknown future-Identity has been left behind, their old world has been left behind and they are anonymous homeless migrants in transition “watching pigeons that watched them”.
This shows connections to people seeking to create a sense of belonging, Belonging can enrich our identity and new relationships a can lead to acceptance with understanding. This poem conveys a melancholy atmosphere and a somber tone of apprehension. Skrzynecki uses metaphors to evoke responders sense of feelings of damp, cold and emptiness. These migrants are empty-traumatized by the scenes of violence in Europe and transported to this new country with a new language and a new way of life, on central station they are in limbo. Felix Skrzynecki is at peace, he made the best of his journey and finds contentment in the simple things, “Watching the stars and street lights come on, / Happy as I have never been.” This is quite a surprising yet strong statement, which suggests that the persona envies his father because he has never felt this contentment and fulfillment. Father and son perceive their attachment to place very differently “The wind tastes of blood” which express that only blood connection with their past, so they can’t identity and understand where they belonging …show more content…
to. The poems may create a sense of belonging to the wider world.
“Form the circle around you-to what star” shows the composer has used the image of the sky to link his ancestors to the present world. Over time the composer links the concept of belonging to the world. Where war has destroyed connections, the persona’s reflection, “I never know you” expresses the persona’s feelings of alienation from his culture; heritage and land of birth while the use of personification, “we will meet before you die” suggests his disconnection from the old world. The poet’s father, a gentle, determined, stoic and happy man who has faced obstacles and turmoil throughout his life but has kept a positive approach and remained strong. Peter is undoubtedly has a lot of respect for his father but realistically acknowledges the estrangement growing between them, his son living his own life in his own
world. Peter skrzynecki explores various aspects of belonging and not belonging in his poems. He uses language technique such as enjambment; simile, metaphor, and alliteration to skrzynecki broaden the reader’s concept of belonging through the medium of poetry. Peter skrzynecki also uses the theme of not belonging in his poem to contrast, and thereby better convey, his ideas on belonging. The poems explores the relationship between father and son and represent the son’s ideas about belonging by contrasting his immigrant father experience as a youth torn between two culturally different worlds while at the same time , exploring the alienation he feels from his father’s world with the sense of place of place purpose and clear identity his father has.
Katerine Wang 22/3/2010