Saturday, October 19, 2019

The Migrant. Comments

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The emigrant leaves his own country
for various personal and private reasons.
He is a gambler in the lottery of the future.
He surely hopes for a better job at higher pay
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Rajnish Manga 21 October 2019

It's a coincidence that two minutes prior to reading this poem, I was reading (and listening to a musical presentation of) a folk song written by a people's poet nearly two hundred years ago and roughly on the same subject but with a philosophical message.

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Michael Walker 22 October 2019

Yes, a folk song can be just as forceful as a poem. Thanks for your observation.

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Rajnish Manga 21 October 2019

(2) Last two lines say it all: He is a gambler in the lottery of the future. ....God said: 'Do not ill-treat a stranger; you know how it feels to be rejected, because you were strangers in Egypt'.

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Rajnish Manga 21 October 2019

I wonder how many will people have similar thoughts with regard to accepting migrants (within a country or at inter-continental level) . I fully agree that such migrants have contributed towards the all-round growth of their places of migration while putting in their best efforts for ensuring a better deal for themselves and their families and also for their coming generations. Thanks for taking up the subject and explaing the same with nice examples.

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Michael Walker 24 October 2019

Not everyone gives immigrants a fair go, unfortunately. I think it is logical to make immigrants feel at home and 'one of us'.

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