Personal Narrative: My Struggle With Life In Canada

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My struggle with life in Canada
… As long as I live I will remember (Shakur, “Love Within a Storm” 11)
In the stare of the sky in the cold catch of water (Hervey 6)
I exist in the depths of solitude (Shakur, “In the Depths of Solitude” 1) Under the stars above (Shakur, “2 People With 1 Wish” 4)
[I] brood like the day, a master over a slave (William 121)
I think of home and dry my eyes (Shen-Yen 8)
[It was] when I was at my lowest (Shakur, “Nothing Can Come Between Us 4 John” 10)
[My] will crumbled, the heart; [my] mind given away (Brasch 9)
[At] first [I] loved [being in the ocean] well and faithfully (Donne 23)
Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng (Shelley 627)
There [was] no warmth [there], [my] heart pulsates (Curnow, “A Balanced Bait” 23)
Lawdy mercy (Hughes,
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---. “Long Trip.” Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, n.e., 1959, p. 52.
Kennelly, Brendan. “Gods Laughter.” Voices and Poetry of Ireland, n.e., Sourcebooks Mediafusion, 2005, p. 63.
Mahon, Derek. “Antarctica.” Voices and Poetry of Ireland, n.e., Sourcebooks Mediafusion, 2005, p. 73.
Millay, St. Vincent, Edna. “If I Should Learn in Some Quite Casual Way.” Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay, n.e., Harper & Row Pub., 1941, p. 5.
Muir, Edwin. “The Horses.” The Golden Ecco Anthology: 100 Great Poems of The English Language, edited by Mark Strand, Ecco P. 1994, p. 127.
Pai, Li. “Thoughts on a Quiet Night.” Poems of the Masters: Chinas Classic Anthology of Tang and Sung Dynasty Verse, translated by Red Pine, Copper Canyon P., 2003, p. 65.
Shakur, Tupac. “2 People With 1 Wish.” The Rose That Grew From Concrete, n.e., Pocket Books, 1999, p. 99.
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