Home (Warsan Shire poem) Warsan Shire

The poem “Home” by Warsan Shire speaks out for refugees by describing the unthinkable and difficult decisions refugees are forced to make on a daily basis. Shire employs personification and second person techniques in order to portray the idea...

Migration is not a contemporary phenomena; it has defined human nature since (or even before) crossing The Bering Strait. Humans migrate for two reasons: they are looking for better lives or they simply cannot stay—the latter being the most...