drifters
...would mean he is from a low social economic background. But the poem never actually states the actual reason for their continuous move’s to a different place. Even though the tone of the poem is written in a very nonchalant manner, the author is being serious about the issue of how a family gets upset about being stuck in a life that is continuously moving around and not being permanently settled anywhere. The poem talks about the feelings of each of the family members on moving to a new place again, and also about the wife who’s losing all hope at her dreams of a normal life which never comes. The young children in the family are growing up learning that life never stops at one place for a time long enough to do anything but to keep on moving continuously from one place to another, so they wait eagerly to know when they will move again. The children get very excited about moving from place to place “and the kids will yell truly”. The eldest in the family is starting to realize that will never stop moving from place to place, but she can’t help but get attached to wherever she lives in a very short time, “the oldest girl is close to tears because she was happy here”. She becomes really frustrated with her life. And the wife, who notices all these things, has stopped caring about the fact that they’re moving yet once again, and accepts the fact that this will never stop, “she won’t even ask why they’re leaving this time”. She remembers their arrival, and her joy, “the first...