Not Our Home Poem

I was successful in creating two poems relating to Korean culture. My ideas were creative even though it was similar to the poem about French Revolution. I connected the Korean culture to a major historical event in Korea. “Not Our Home” is a poem from a young Korean boy’s perspective in past tense. It describes how unfair the Japanese were to Koreans and also describes the negative emotions that existed as the Japanese went on ruling Korea. But if you read it on, you can see that all the Koreans have a burning patriotism in their hearts to keep them going and retaliate. I decided to write my poem this way because it’s a fact. Koreans believed that they would get their land back eventually if they kept on trying. Koreans believed that one day, they would be independent and have a place to call home. To emphasize that, I put in repetition and rhythm. I tried not to put in any metaphors, similes nor personifications because if I did, it would kill the mood of the poem and it would kill the tension that was built up in the first few lines. The repetition made it more impactful in emphasizing the patriotism of Koreans as it repeated the words home and how they would not accept the Japanese as their lord. The rhythm just made
“A Home” is in that boy’s perspective and past tense as well except that the boy is all grown up now. This poem is basically about how Korea was like after the Japanese retreated. It’s about how Japan sort of influenced Korean culture in a sense and how the main parts of Korean culture was kept hidden only to be spread out after the Japanese retreated. I wrote this poem in this specific way because I thought that was the best way to connect a historical event to Korean culture. I thought it was interesting to tell the readers what Japan had to do with Korean culture as well. To emphasize this, I, again, used a little bit of repetition, rhythm, and a little bit of rhyme. The repetition definitely helped because the