At the border – The right word

“At the border” is a poem about a girl who had to evacuate Iraq as the was a civil war going on, and she is now returning to her homeland after living in Kurdistan for many years whereas “The right word” is a poem about a woman that doubts her words because she does not how to describe a child after the devastating event of 911.

Both of these poems are about people that have been affected in the past by conflict but one of the poems (At the border) is about the poet being happy because she is finally returning home and the pride the poet feels about finally being where she is meant to be, and the other hand the other poem (The right word)  is about a woman who sees a little boy that is Arab looking and discriminates him because of the 911 bombings but realises her choice of words are wrong and lets him in her house.

At the border is written in first person and it is a girl who sounds like a teenager explaining how she is returning home to her country after having to live in Kurdistan