An Explication of "Prospective Immigrants Please Note" by Adrienne Rich.
Title: An Explication of "Prospective Immigrants Please Note" by Adrienne Rich.
Category: /Literature/North American
Details: Words: 985 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
An Explication of "Prospective Immigrants Please Note" by Adrienne Rich.
Category: /Literature/North American
Details: Words: 985 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Prospective Immigrants Please Note"
Adrienne Rich
Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.
If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily
to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely
but much will blind you,
much
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Upon deciding not to leave the country all that is require is maintaining you attitude, standing your ground, dieing bravely. Who knows what will happen next? Going to another country or going through "the door" there are no guarantees, but that it is an option, "it is only a door."
However there is still a door! There are not many legal doors any more anywhere else! A door without any promise is better than none!!!