The material I'm discussing in my contemporary issue is a poem called Lost. It is one of many poems from the book My Country. it is about a person being alienated from the surrounding people and he's got a disease called AIDS . Lost is a poem about a person being alienated because he or her has got a disease . It shows the way people treat you differently when you're different to them .The poem describes …showed first 75 words of 398 total…

…showed last 75 words of 398 total…pretendI still belong ". This issue relates to the aspect in the novel ' For the Patriarch' and the story ' For The Patriarch' . Dimitris who was a Greek preist came from a foreign country and he was alienated by the new culture that surrounded him. The similarities of the novel to the poem is that in both cases it deals with the aspect of Personal Choice and Alienation as well as the aspect of Society.