In life, many are highly influenced by their parents. Author Naomi Shihab Nye was born in 1952 in St Louis Missouri. Her father, a Palestinian refugee, and her mother an American with German and Swiss decent, were very influential to both her childhood and her writing career. It influences her writing because she later became known for writing about traveling and and different cultures. Her poems are very diverse, which ultimately stems back to her upbringing. This along with Nye’s use of poetic devices shows that within her poems, she is able to explain to the audience and help them empathize with those of different cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Through her use of poetic devices such as alliteration, metaphor, imagery, asssonance
