The poem “I Ask My Mother To Sing” written by Li-Young Lee, is about a Chinese family and its members who share experiences from their past. The sad story of this family makes this poem more significant because due to the political conditions of China. And the anti-Chinese sentiment of the time. Due to these issues they had to escape Macau, then Japan, and finally immigrate to the U.S. This poem is just and interpretation of a family’s desolation feeling of their lost past which never would come back and is express in a very peculiar way, a poem.
Almost all families use poems, songs and stories to help them remember their past and their culture. This is always used to pass their heritage through generations. Most of the time this is help
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