historian

Publication Instance Details #2852

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	Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Anthology
Notes	The speaker of the poem describes the poverty and richness of his childhood. The deprivation of his childhood is noted in the lack of electricity, paved roads, and internet connection, but also the valuable connections he had with others. He wished to be a historian for his community and place, who wished to write the history of the 'cloth we used to wipe out muddy shoes before getting the train'. This implies the class differences in the speaker's homeland, and the relative deprivation in which he lived as a child.