 Hello, and welcome back to yet another GCSE revision lesson now carrying on through the a key way worlds and lives anthology Okay, working our way through the entire poetry collection And now want to move on to look at important contextual information that you should be aware of if you're studying this anthology And more specifically the poem name journeys by Roman Monday. Okay, so what I'm going to do as you can see behind me is go Over this very brief mind map of put together relating to both the author and the influences that will have influenced the poem itself Okay, and this is really important because you need to have contextual understanding of what influenced a lot of the writing of Roman Monday and more specifically names journey. Okay now let's begin by discussing the poet herself Okay, so remember that Roman Monday is originally from India She was born in India and she migrated so she left her home country, India and moved to Manchester in the 1970s when she was just five years old. Okay, so she left India when she was quite young she was only five years old and After she settled in Manchester, she stayed there for a while before her family decided to move on to Leicester and now as an adult She's a modern poet. She's still alive. She currently resides in Scotland, okay, so she is a poet that's very much used to migrating and moving between cultures Okay, now when she moved to the UK, this was a very important turning point for her right culturally But also there were specific very negative Instances especially when she was in education so early on as a foreign student that she faced a lot of obstacles Okay, so when she moved to the UK She was initially put in a class for what she in her own words says was a class for the educationally Subnormal, okay, in other words her teachers judged her as being subnormal and basically put her in a class where she needed some form of correction, okay, and she learned English in order to Addicted to to correct her educational sub normality, of course That's atrocious and teachers are not supposed to view and label the student in this way However, this is an early experience that really influenced her writing, okay And of course her writing is very much influenced by her experiences as an immigrant Not only by being labeled in this really terrible way But also more generally as an outsider seeing things from an outsider's perspective, okay So even names journey itself is influenced in this way Now the final thing to bear in mind about Roman Mundair is she not only is Disabled but she's queer, okay so she's part of the LGBT community and She identifies as a feminist a lot of this information and all of this comes into play in her Writing, okay, so this is really really super important to understand when it comes to studying the poem name journeys itself So now that you've got this background information Let's now do a deep dive and a line by line analysis of this entire poem by Roman Mundair