Migration In America

Introduction

Migration has been a vital part in everyone’s life, and people move for different reasons. Different causes for migration will produce different outcomes observable from every aspect, and especially in social aspect as person has to live within a society. There are chances that a migrant might go through some kind of psychological trauma, of leaving their homeland or leaving behind their family members for good earnings and better job opportunities, might complicate their adjustments in their new environment.

Every person’s individuality and identity is rooted in family no matter where they live in the whole world. Each person carries the weight and benefits of his/her own genetic and cultural history to overcome the feeling and

In this poem, he draws on the pastoral mode to reach beyond boundaries of nation and literary form, constructing a poetic space of transnational cultural belonging, which he was successfully able to clarify in his poem America. Tropic of New York hints McKay’s place-sense: standing on a New York sidewalk, gazing into a storefront, he flashes back to his native Jamaica. The poem dwells on memory and on what triggers memory, invoking a global imaginary that, at the same time, intimates the brute economics of what might otherwise be recognized as modernist primitivism. For, while these exotic fruits – bananas, alligator pears, mangoes – signifies elsewhere, they have become in the United States “detached commodities no longer part of the land” now signifiers of extravagance (Pedersen 2001). They are on display, delicacies meant to lure the customer into the store. And yet, their presence in the poem is synecdoche of Jamaica and intensifies the poet-speaker’s acute sense of

In this way, “The Tropics in New York” resembles a rather more famous modern poem of memory, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler”, which also began with a young colonial’s vision in a metropolitan shop window. There, too, the “clay and wattles” of a primary rural existence give way to the “glimmer” and “glow” of memorial longing. The resemblance suggests that, though alligator pears and wattles are particular, the language of memory is universal, for both poets rely on a certain dewy dimness to describe their longing for