Theme of Diversity in Home by Warsan Shire and Cemetery Path by Leonard Q. Ross

📌Category: Literature, Poems
📌Words: 428
📌Pages: 2
📌Published: 11 April 2022

In this essay, I will be comparing the texts ‘Home Poem’ by Warsan Shire and ‘Cemetery Path’ by Leonard Q. Ross and their relation to our topic of diversity. 

First, I will discuss the Home Poem. In this poem, a refugee runs for their life; it is important as refugees are people like everyone else, but refugees are forced away from their homes and for their lives. The author writes the main character as ‘you’ so you (the reader) can visualize being in the shoes of the main character. There is also her relationships between the character and the boy she kissed have now changed as the boy is now holding a gun making him have a lot more power now being capable of killing. One line talks about how the character tears up her passport and swallows the paper contained inside it. The reason the character does this is that the country she leaves to can’t send her back to her country of origin. Another passage reads “no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land”. The meaning of this is that the water is unsafe as it could contain sharks and other deadly sea animals and you can drown. The final lines talk about how the character is in the stomach of a truck. This shows that no one would leave home unless they had no choice and that they needed to get away. They use personification to give the reader the visualization that the character is hidden from sight.

Second, I will talk about Cemetery Path by Leonard Q. Ross. Ivan is bullied and this is shown by the way the townspeople call him names like 'Pigeon' and 'Ivan the Terrible'. When Ivan is challenged it's the 5 gold rubles that convince him to do it since he's poor and wants to prove himself in front of the townsfolk. Then the townsfolk in the tavern toast to him going to complete the challenge, yet again proving his unpopularity. In the cemetery, he questions himself for half a second wondering if he should do it. After he does, he becomes terrified, dying presumably from fright. This text is very interesting as it conveys the message that Ivan knew he shouldn’t do it and got frightened as he thought he was getting attacked from beyond the grave (probably thinking it was some type of protector of the grave or something).

Ultimately, both texts have similarities and relate to our topic of diversity. This is shown by the refugees in Home Poem and in Cemetery Path the differences between Ivan and the Cossack lieutenant who has more power than Ivan and more money whereas Ivan is poor and does not have as much power as others.

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