Throughout Canadian history there have been many pieces of literary work that have shown the individuals personal voice. Voice is a major part of building and adding to Canada's culture. One voice that is commonly heard through Canadian literature is the immigrant voice. Canada is a country that is diverse with immigrants from all around the world who journeyed to Canada to strive for a better life. Canada has been the land of opportunity and new beginnings, welcoming immigrants from all around the world. No matter what background or social class someone comes from, they will always have freedom of speech when entering Canada, which amplifies their own personal voice. This is evident in the 1997 poem "Moving," by Shahriar Shahriari. Shahriari skillfully uses vivid diction, awakening tone and the use of rhetorical devices in his poem to showcase his immigrant voice and feelings through his literary work, showing the struggle he had to endure and how it made him the man he is today.
Initially when reading "Moving", by Shahriar Shahriari the use of his vivid diction which sticks out and portrays his view of moving to another country as an immigrant. His use of language intensifies his feelings of moving to another country, which only helps to intensify Shahriari's personal voice and purpose. Shahriari uses such diction as "dilemma", "emotional" and "guilt". All of these words give off a stigma of struggle and enduring. By the use of these negative words he portrays the feeling of an immigrant. The negativity keys on these words give off a sense of fear in his speech, as if he is afraid of what is to come. The hardship they had to endure and the physical and mental toll it took on them to take the step in immigrating to Canada. The use of his diction helps to give the poem a personal feel rather than a manufactured and forced tone. The use of his vivid and emotional dictions helps to portray the amount of struggle and pain he had to endure to come to and move to Canada.
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Poetry indeed derives from oral traditions, most spectacularly in the case of Homer, but continuing today in many less literate societies. ... Expositions are complicated, but the aims of poetry might be classified under Traditional, Modernist and Postmodernist. According to Traditional poetry has the greater store of principles. Such things as: Poetry is language organized for aesthetic purposes. Poetry must not only describe but also bear witness. ...
