Rebels In Today's Society Essay

Rebels in Today’s Society
Task 1
I found the poem “she must be from another country” quite interesting because of its many themes. Imtiaz Dharker wrote this poem, she is one of the most important and influencing Indian poets that are writing in English right now. One of the recurring themes in her poems are things such as the danger of exclusion, as she said in an earlier interview “"In a world that seems to be splitting itself into narrower national and religious groups, sects, castes, sub-castes, etc. we can only go on excluding others until we come down to a minority of one." The poem's title reminds us of how quickly we dismiss those who we categorize as different from us or as said in the poem, the others. The protagonist of the poem often wonders where this “other” country is. A country where people with other interests, orientations and skin colors go? Are our difference’s challenges or gifts? The questions this poem asks are huge and fit extremely well into today’s refugee crisis and trumps narrow-minded statement on transgendered kids earlier this year, or how homosexuals are being treated in Afghanistan and Iraq. We all need somewhere to go that is outside our seemingly unbreakable wall of social norms, but sadly, there

The last word in almost all of the lines is “we”. For the most part, the next lines describe what “we” do, such as drop out of school and die soon. Gwendolyn, the author of the poem has stated that the “we”s are meant to be said softly, like piano and not like the way one normally says we, as though the narrator in the poem are questioning if they exist. This poem has been featured on the infamous Broadsides and is very often studied in literature classes and reprinted in high school, college etc. literature books. It is very famous for intergrading some of the “seven deadly sins” from the Catholic Church; these are traits such as Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and