The speaker is outspoken and determined, attempting to change the reader’s perspective through art. They spend time in an area where “persecuted” people (Line 3) once gathered, suggesting the speaker has a familiarity or solidarity with these persecuted people themself. The speaker exhibits a strong sense of identity towards their homeland, although the place is not specified in the poem; they argue that their home country is “moving closer” (Line 7) to horrors they’ve observed elsewhere.