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An Analysis of Marilyn Chin’s "How I Got That Name" Last document update:   ago

Divided into four stanzas, Marilyn Chin’s poem “How I Got That Name” is the story of a Chinese-American woman named Marilyn Mei Ling Chin. Narrated in first person, each of its four stanzas focuses on a different part of the narrator’s journey into assimilation in the American society and her connection to her Chinese roots. The first stanza narrates her father’s ordeal as he makes his way into America and how within that journey her name was born. The second stanza explores her strugg...