Immigrant Blues - Li-Young Lee - Worksheets for comprehension and analysis

Immigrant Blues is a moving exploration of the migrant experience, and this four-page worksheet helps students understand and deconstruct the poem.

The first part of the worksheet focuses on comprehension, before moving into a closer deconstruction of the poet’s language choices and examining specific examples. In the process, students consider language techniques used by Lee and how these assist in exploring the ideas of the poem.

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