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Publication Instance Details #2074

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	No	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Displacement/Forced Migration Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance
Languages	Irish
Genre	Part Of Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	By the descriptions in the poem, including references to Dutch colonization, the speaker of the poem is describing a gloomy scene in New York City, in the United States. The poem contains descriptions of poor people of colour in doorways, looking for work, and knocking on taxi windows to beg for money. There is a mention of those welcomed by America as immigrants - the hungry and beaten down of the world - in a reference to the immigrant history of the city. The poem - through its morose description of the living conditions of the poor of the city - seems to indicate that the American dream has somewhat faded away, and failed.