Where will you be?
...’t believe that homosexuality is right. They are the people who are also scared to stand for something that they believe in. He helps to identify this is line 9 “Citizens, good citizens…”, also in multiply lines the question is asked “where will you be when they all come?” Towards the middle of the poem he switched the audience to everybody when he says in line 49 “where will we all be when they come?” by him changing from “you” to “we all” and the word all being italicized lets us know that the audience has changed. Then he changes the audience again when he goes back to using the word “we”, such as in line 57, but the “we” now stand for people who are classified as being homosexual. The author uses a unique style of writing which further enhances the tone and sound of the poem. The poem is broken into small phrases and sentences, which make the poem seem faster and more intense. For example in line 57-60, “Every time we watched a queer hassled in the streets and said nothing—It was an act of perversion.” He also uses a variety of punctuation in his writing such as: question marks, quotations, and dashes. He uses the punctuation marks in spots that need to have more emphasis put on them. The dashes he uses in this poem make you stop and think for a split second on what the message is trying to say. He states the same question throughout the poem “and where will you be when they come?” and it is in either the first sentence or the last sentence of a stanza which indicates if he want to think about what he is saying before and after a point has been made. The speaker in this poem happens to also be the author. This is stated in lines 49-50 “Where will we all be when they come?” By the narrator italicizing the word “all” lets us know that he is talking about homosexuals and himself in that category. The stanzas following the italicized all, the narrator begins to list things associated with the homosexual world. By this the speaker is letting the audience know that he is himself a homosexual. This becomes clear when he began to use the words such as we when he talks about what homosexuals do in order to in a sense protect themselves from the people who are trying the rehabilita...