Prospective Immigrants Please Note
by Adrienne Rich
Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.
go through this door
or you will not go through.
If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.
Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.
and you must look back
and let them happen.
If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthily
it is possible
to live worthily
to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely
to hold your position
to die bravely
but much will blind you,
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?
The door itself makes no promises.
It is only a door.
It is only a door.
This poem is about a choice. Explain what options the poem presents and what costs? Then explain Antigone's choice and what she could lose.
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