How I Got That Name Marilyn Chin

By marilyn chin published on 04 01 90.

As an immigrant marilyn chin is neither able to relate to china having lost the self identity and name nor able to relate to the host culture with only the new name as an added tag. In exploring how she got her american name marilyn the speaker of chin s poem a chinese american woman delves right into what it means to be an immigrant from china. The floral apron. Academy of american poets newsletter academy of american poets educator newsletter teach this poem poem a day submit support us.

Oh how i love the resoluteness of that first person singular followed by that stalwart indicative of be without the uncertain i n g of becoming of course. Free verse printer friendly. The first stanza has thirty five lines the second. Two poems marilyn chin how i got that name an essay on assimilation.

How i got that name type of content. How i got that name is divided into four stanzas. 24 jun 2015 creator. I am marilyn mei ling chin.

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Deng xiao ping are we not your children. I am marilyn mei ling chin oh how i love the resoluteness of that first person singular followed by that stalwart indicative of be without the uncertain i n g of becoming of course the name had been changed somewhere between angel island and the sea when my father the paperson in the late 1950s obsessed with a bombshell blond transliterated mei ling to marilyn. How i got that name. But on a deeper level it s a poem about the immigrant experience and specifically the chinese american immigrant experience.

One of the first signs of the change in location was her father s insistence that her name be. Sixteen and the fourth has twenty three. Marilyn chin s how i got that name is a poem about a name. The lines do not follow a specific rhyme scheme or metrical pattern.

Born in hong kong in 1955 poet marilyn chin came to the united states soon after with her family. In the first paragraph she recounts her father s journey to america from china and touches on how she got her american name marilyn her dad was obsessed with marilyn monroe apparently who wasn t. How i got that name by marilyn chin is a four stanza poem that is divided into uneven sets of lines. The poem is autobiographical and recollects in a nostalgic how the poet got her present name.