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An immigrant's fractured sense of self leading to an oscillation…

- - - - First
        
        "Imagine"
        
        Depiction of a lack of integration
        
        Connect to dramatic monologue + second person narrative
      - "Then"
        
        Divide between the internal and external voice
        
        "the voice in your head / recites the letter in a local dialect"
      - Now
        
        Immigrant/persona = foreign to the life they are living, it is a mundane/monotonous routine
        
        "You use the public transport. Work. Sleep."
        
        Staccato sentences
        
        The day is compressed
        
        No opportunity to reveal one's personality, culture - living a guarded life
        
        "Me not know what these people mean.
        It like they only go to bed and dream."
        
        All understanding of the world fades
      - Depict oscillation - a constant shift
      - Inability to locate oneself in a specific time/space realm
      - Progression of isolation
    - - cyclic structure - "Imagine" & "then you are writing home"
        
        Prompts readers to empathise with feelings of isolation
        
        Isolation --> search for belonging
      - Duffy assumes voice of the marginalised
        
        showcases the immigrant's fractured sense of self
        
        depicts search for an elusive 'home'
    - - Distils persona from experiences
        
        Compliments alienation
  - - - Visual
        
        "you saw a name for yourself sprayed in red / against a brick wall. A hate name. Red like blood."
        
        Caesura
        
        creates emphasis on the derogatory term
        
        Alienation/otherisation = accentuated
        
        This depicts that identity is being taken away, it is being forced to fracture by systemic violence/exclusion - identity is not lost, this fracture is specific to immigrants due to the hate posed towards them, among other factors
        
        Doesn't let identification with one place happen
        
        Simile
        
        heightens the depth of hatred felt toward the 'foreigner'
        
        association with emotions of anger/negativity
      - Auditory
        
        "you hear / your foreign accent echo down the stairs"
        
        voice = disembodied
        
        self = split
    - - "Imagine" (anaphora)
        
        One can only imagine - the isolation / exclusion is something only immigrants go though
      - your "foreign" accent
        
        Persona feels as though their language, culture is unfamiliar due to how they are treated
      - "dismal dwellings"
        
        one is yours - referring to one's place of residence as a "dismal dwelling" showcases that the place is unwelcoming, unfamiliar, uncomfortable = not home
        
        localisation of identity via the place that disconnects
        
        foreign can exist in the familiar
        
        lived in that place for 20 years but still referring to it such
        
        they know where they live but they do not feel they belong there
        
        sense of foreignness
        
        harsh plosive "d" sound
    - - Antithesis
        
        "You think / in a language of your own and talk in theirs."
        
        Own vs theirs
        
        Thinking vs talking - one must do these everyday, hence exists a constant linguistic oscillation as being rooted in the fracture of the self