The poem is written in free verse. Free verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms. In this way, the poet can give his own shape to a poem however he or she desires. However, it still allows p...
Race, language, religion, birthplace —
the categories do not satisfy;
what do they say of you and me,
the space, the silences between?
Not always negative, I am
more or less than your images,
the truth is always partly,
a few hints here and there.
That's how it is — conceptual
smithereens, in spurts
and starts, a world view,
the twentieth century's, ours.
Some New Perspectives was written by Ee Tiang Hong.