Back In The Old Hometown Poem Analysis

Poetry has the capacity to function as a catch basin for writers’ product of expression as well as an avenue for a person’s various experiences; as humans have an innate need to explain their lives, to tell their stories and to do so in a creative way. These poems were chosen as they exhibit the theme of the Home as well as Journeys and other things that relate which revolve around those two main words. Covering four parts that include Home, Going or Being away from home, The Journey, and The Return. They do not connect directly but all revolve around any of the four categories. The home is a sanctuary of love and peace. It is the place where one feels rooted upon. We do not talk of a structure which holds the living room, garage and bedroom;

We are not given the reason for the girl and her lover to separate but we know from the gentle words wherein she described how he kissed her forehead and tucked an unruly lock around her ear, that he had meant something dear to her until the present. In our next poem, “Back in the Old Hometown” by Gregorio A. Estonanto, the Poet revisits each long remembered scene as he returns to his hometown. His journey has taken time and he witnesses the effects of it as he passes by his aged friends. “...I dream / Of other scenes and days no more to be; / My spirit rushes with the hurrying stream” (91) He daydreams of the things he wishes to do or see or experience but he concedes to the fact that his time is running out. He feels a little bit of panic at the prospect and the walk through this town seems to serve a reminder. The time he has spent away had continued on without him. There would naturally be some changes when one returns. The last poem is “Return” Gelacio Y. Guillermo. This is different from the poem before it because our protagonist wishes not to return. From the very first line, “I lack the joy of a returning son.”(437) We see that he is openly reluctant to be returning