Imagery; Pictorial Visual (3) Auditory (2)

"redroom that fell through fields"; child's vivid imagination takes them away from the uncertainty of the move (coping mechanism of children) "holding its paw"; introduces warmth - it is a child's nature to be affectionate and search for comfort in a time of distress "Standing, resigned, up an avenue/where no one you know stays"; chilling reference to the loneliness and exclusion "the house, the vacant rooms/where we didn't live anymore" "bawling Home,/Home"; brother's sorrow "shouting words you don't understand"; disconnection between 'foreign' family, and the community that excludes them