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IEB Summary - Strangers Forever
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- English Home Language
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- 12th Grade
A helpful building block for the poem Strangers Forever
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Strangers Forever● The Title
○ In the last line, he inverts the word order, for the emphasis
● Line 1
○ The word ‘each’ establishes individuality, the idea of being alone and
separateness
○ There is a contrast in ‘us’, which touches on the universal desire to know
others and to know ourselves
● Line 2
○ Begins an extended metaphor and it is as if the worlds people are like
passengers on a train
● Line 3
○ People being seated is beyond our control
○ This is because we are just on a journey being conducted
● Line 4
○ Extends the metaphor further
● Line 5
○ An unusual sentence structure
○ Represents the fact that our journey of life as well as the unknown
This poem, thus far, is about fate and chance; the developments of our lives that are
beyond our control
No matter what choices we make, we will always land where we belong
● Line 6
○ On its own line; a reiteration of the title
○ The isolation is being reinforced
● Line 7
○ The verb, thrown, conveys a roughness to random human interactions
● Line 8
○ The word ‘travel’ continues the metaphor about journeying
○ The speaker is saying that life is potentially futile
○ The line does not end at a full stop which does not signify a definite end
■ The semicolon is a continuation of the journey
○ About living life without knowing how it shall end
The next four lines are a rhetorical question
- Reinforces the isolation established in the word ‘strangers’
● Line 9
○ The speaker is asking how we can know other people fully… if we cannot
even know ourselves fully because they are the whispers of our mind
● Line 10
○ Stands for the inner truth; what we really know
● Line 11
○ ^
● Line 12
○ How do we connect with others when we don’t even connect with ourselves
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