An Inner Vision

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The paper discusses the poem entitled "Montage with Neon, Bok Choi, Gasoline, Lovers & Strangers." The paper examines this poem in which the author describes an image that links her to her people even though she lives far from them. The paper describes this image that links all of humanity around the wars of the past and the effects of those wars on the present, an image that shows the city streets filled with a huge parade seen as a montage, an outward representation of her inner vision.

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"In her poem "Montage with Neon, Bok Choi, Gasoline, Lovers & Strangers," Suji Kwock Kim makes use of an extended image of a street parade in Seoul that includes the speaker and every other person in Korea, all represented by the millions of balloons the speaker sees moving down the street. The title of the poem describes this parade as a montage, an outward representation of her inner vision of a people united through the other elements described in the title, neon, bok choi and gasoline, all drawing together both lovers and strangers, people known and unknown. The elements cited represent either Koran culture or the features of an urban street, with the bok choi being a Korean food and the neon and gasoline being artifacts of an urban street at night."

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