Analysis Of What Do I Remember Of The Evacuation By Joy Kogawa

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In What Do I Remember Of The Evacuation, the author, Joy Kogawa, uses unorthodox punctuation in the form of hyphens and lowercase ‘i’s’, allusion through mentioning Gulliver’s travels, and an intentional rhyme scheme in the final lines in order to develop how the discrimination faced in the evacuation has affected the speaker. The most noticeable aspect of the structure of the entire poem is the lack of capital letters and periods. There is only one part in the entire forty lines, which is at the very end, and this intentional punctuation brings readers to question the speaker’s literacy. In fact, the speaker is very young, and the use of punctuation and hyphens brings to attention the speaker’s innocence, and because of that innocence, the

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