Migrant Hostel

A sense of personal surviveing is indeed ceremonious as language and ‘nationalities’ provide a common mass medium for interaction, Skrzynecki uses the simile, “Like a homing pigeon Circling to get its bearings” to describe the capricious and uncertain nature of the hostel. This simile illustrates the migrators as birds searching for their home, gaining virtually respite in others of the same nationality. However, the “circling” is symbolic of their inability to arise their home due to the uncertain nature of the hostel. The constant lawsuit and uncertainty is in fact circular and therefore has a stagnating effect on the search for belonging of these migrants. Accordingly, this portrays a discouraging disaffection experienced by the migrants in which no counselling is felt.
In Stanza three, Skrzynecki reiterates the bird simile, however this time comparing the migrant experience to that of “birds of passage”. The migratory nature of these birds is quite unalike to the “homing pigeon”, conveying a transitory nature of their sustentation as what birds of passage do. By doing this, Skrzynecki reintroduces an atmosphere of uncertainty along with the suggestion, “We lived like birds of passage-, Always sensing a change, In the endure”.



The use of the collective first person pronoun “we”, helps depict the haleness amongst the migrants, giving an indication that the migrants are not certain of where they belong anymore. “For over two years” of unpredictable and inconsequential living, they are looking for a new place to belong to, quite the new landscape where they have come to, conveying their desperation to conform to a society and leave alienation.
Skrzynecki poetically illustrates alienation through his personal experiences successfully throughout the whole rime ‘Migrant Hostel’. Although at times unity is conveyed by the migrants, alienation dominates as the key theme, proving...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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