were We in the poem at their home?
what could we fell about the place in the beginning of the poem?
may leave you what scene,situation,or place?
may leave which among efficiency,cultural aspects, and emotional burden.
we were met
we were free
we were left
Although the immigrants come to the new country, they ¨smuggle¨ in their past, their heritage, and their crises.
We smuggled in
Values and slanted opinions.
People are always a part of the land they have lived in, the God that they have worshiped, and the customs that they have held. So, when they enter another country, some can not relate to them, nor can they easily assimilate into the new culture.
W. Somerset Waugham said that no one can understand someone unless he is that person; unless he has sung the same songs, believed in the same wives' tales, and shared other experiences. This is the dilemma of the immigrant. He is a foreigner not just in nationality; he is foreign to the culture, the little wives 'tales, the customs and the food that one eats, and no so on.
Assimilation into a foreign country is always difficult. People coming into a new land are examined and looked at askance. For, they must prove that they are not going to be a problem:
We were left alone
And wherever we go,
We leave a trail
Of unsuspected contraband,
Sometimes polluting, sometimes enriching
Our adopted Home.
When one is not part of a culture, he/she is looked at with some suspicion. In her poem Lewitt writes of the alienation of a person leaving her country for another, a strange land where the immigrants are treated as less than worthy compared to the citizens.