Examine the literary device or devices being used in this excerpt from the poem. how does each literary device that you identify affect the theme of the poem? defend your response with evidence from the poem.

It is vital to realize that this poem explores the mixed feelings of the speaker and her father at having arrived in America. Although they have left a place of danger and insecurity behind them, they feel overwhelmed by the vast differences between their new home and their old. The speaker says how they desperately were "trying hard to feel luckier / than we felt."

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i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

i do not think they will sing to me

no its not a run on sentence however i think you meant wet suits not sours also a run on sentence would be like surfers surf all winter long in southern california by using wet sours to keep them warm and the live their all year long