Name And Identity Poem Annotated

In this poem, the poet asks his readers the importance of a name. The name is used for one’s identification and recognition. People address each other by their specific names given at a time of birth. Through names, people can categorize the uniqueness and class of anything or a person. He says if there is nothing important in the name then, why people want to take for oneself the name and identity of another person. He tries to ask his readers that if there is nothing in the name then why the real identities of the criminals and immoral people are not made known to the public. In these lines “name” is been personified. in the next set of lines, the poet describes the condition of the modern world. The world which expresses the identity crisis