Skrzynecki's Poem 'Crossing The Red Sea'

When a migrant decides to leave their homeland, challenging and emotional obstacles may occur. This concept is expressed in Skrzynecki's poem “Crossing the Red Sea,” where the poet explores the challenges faced, when leaving his homeland to Australia, in search of a better quality of life. The poem also outlines the emotional and physical endeavours, of being a migrant. An example of this, can be depict through the line “stretched out on blankets and pillows against cabins and rails.” Through the use of vivid imagery, Skrzynecki has conveyed the situations migrants had to undergo, by expressing to the reader the physical hardships of being a migrant. This line depicts the uneasy challenges faced by the migrants, as a result of the conjunction