Examples Of Alliteration In Migrant Hostel

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Alienation is a state in which an individual experiences feelings associated to being an outsider or being isolated from society. It is the process whereby people become foreign to the world they are living in. Peter Skrzynecki’s poem “Migrant Hostel” expresses the story of thousands of migrants arriving in Australia after World War II and their lives in the crowded and ever-changing environment of migrant hostels. Throughout the poem Skrzynecki describes the isolation and the sense of not belonging that migrants feel when first arriving in a new country. In ‘No one kept count/of all the comings and goings’, the use of alliteration, specifically consonance is apparent. The harsh, repetitive, consonantal ‘c’ sound dehumanises the immigrants