Read this poem and write around half a page on your analysis of: a) the type of home or homeland described, and b) what this tells us about the background of the writing and the potential audience addressed.
The Armenian Language is the Home of the Armenian
The Armenian language is the home
And haven where the wanderer can own
Roof and wall and nourishment.
He can enter to find love and pride,
Locking the hyena and the storm outside.
For centuries its architects have toiled
To give its ceilings height.
How many peasants working
Day and night have kept
Its cupboards full, lamps lit, ovens hot.
Always rejuvenated, always old, it lasts
Century to century on the path
Where every Armenian can find it when he’s lost
In the wilderness of his future, or his past.
