pete sk

Crossing the red sea is a poem that expresses the process of change. The experience of the immigrants is captured between two different worlds. The title has a biblical reference, the use of the image of Israelites being lead out of Egypt, with the notion of arriving to a promised land. In the immigrants case it is Australia. The new journey brings a new sense of hope and a fresh beginning. This notion of a new happy life is not as positively described as one would gather. Like the Israelites leaving Egypt, their life in their European was so bad and horrible that it actually push them away from their home country. As their perspective on life changes with the hope of a new existence, their perspective of the past life is more morbid and negative. The migrantfs focus on the natural beauties and the scored memories they have left behind. The reality and the horrors of the war, have now turned into silent memories of the past, although the war and the devastation of the war is physical...