Next Section Poem Text Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format GradeSaver "Home (Warsan Shire poem) Study Guide". Inspired by the tragic individual stories which formed part of the European refugee crisis, it is an urgent reminder of the reasons why refugees do what they feel they have to do to survive and protect their families. Shire does not shy away from documenting the true nature of being a refugee she writes that "no one puts their children in a boat / unless the water is safer than the land,", and refers to the painful and dehumanizing effect of leaving one's homeland and finding oneself in a foreign, unfriendly place.Ī sense of dislocation and a lack of belonging dominate the poem, which is political to its core. 1 In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural Brunel University African Poetry Prize, chosen from a shortlist of six candidates out of a total 655 entries. Home is a poem about migration, and the traumas and complexities that define it. Her poem grapples with the harsh realities of life as a refugee, someone who has to abandon his or her home and way of life in order to survive, often because of conflict. Warsan Shire FRSL (born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya.
Shire was inspired to write "Home" after visiting a shelter for Somali refugees in London. No one puts their children in a boat unless the water. Setting The poem details the speakers escape from her unnamed home country to a different country, most likely a first-world country. Her debut collection-entitled teaching my mother how to give birth-was well received, and in 2018 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, cementing her position as a young writer of real talent. No one leaves home unless/home is the mouth of a shark, she wrote in Home, about the life of refugees. Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet whose work has risen in prominence since some of her verse was featured in the singer Beyoncé's film Lemonade, released in 2016.
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