The poem "Originally" was written my Carol Ann Duffy, a Scottish poet, in 1994. The poem is about her leaving home and moving into "the city". Throughout the poem she expresses how she feels about how she has lost her identity and her "culture". In the third stanza she wrote about how she is starting to fit in her new society "like the rest". However she feels isolated from their ways of living.
             The opening of the first stanza is straightforward. Carol Ann Duffy begins the poem by writing "we came to our own country". This sentence shows a sense of belonging. Later on she writes "in a red room". This can perhaps be a mother's womb, the place where we are originally from. The poem goes on with a cheerful tone of "our mother singing". This could be because she is talking about her memories. The repetition of the word "Home" shows us how she is still holding on to her memories and her anxiety not to move away. This poem could be a metaphor for growing up, something that we will all experience.
             Later on the poem we notice that the poem is starting to get more personal. The poet is building up her thoughts and feelings making a more personal approach. She writes about "the streets, the house, vacant rooms". Now we notice that the tone has saddened. The use of the word "vacant" I believe has a deeper meaning to it. It may illustrate her feeling of emptiness. Furthermore she goes on saying, "Where we didn't live anymore". This perhaps shows us how it is useless to hold on to the past. The poet ends the first stanza by with a childhood memory of a "blind toy, holding its paws". I believe this shows us the intimacy of the surrounding is just an illusion and the child has been deceived. By using the "blind" could mean that she is lost.
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