How does the speaker in 'I Come From' create a sense of his identity?

After reading 'I Come From' by Robert Seatter, you begin to comprehend the persona and you understand that the speaker is expressing his upbringing. From first glance you can tell that from the structure, this poem is a flow of his consciousness onto the page. The poem doesn't include any end-stopped punctuation, the lines flows as enjambment and is used throughout. I feel that the enjambment represents the travel of his thoughts running from his brain to the page, however this movement could also represent how quickly his childhood went by.

The voice of the poem is the speaker, possibly Seatter, looking aback on his childhood memories. This can tells us that from his upbringing he's been brought up with hopes for something else to become of his life. The line 'from no accent at all' suggests that the family the persona has come from, hardly catches the eye, its suggests that his family is the 'norm' and that his family is not any different to the families surrounding him.

Seatter identifies as a young boy who has grown up on the outside looking in. From my understanding, the persona has felt nothing but kindness from his childhood, he's been brought up well, he didn't get into trouble but he's hoping for something more. From the last 'I come from' in the poem there is a sense of change in the tone and the poem seams to take a morbid and depressing approach. I think this change means that Seatter has maybe realised his innocence and how naive he was in his younger years.

The lines 'I come from rats behind the garage,
and a man who followed me
back from the library' takes quite a different approach, I fell that maybe whilst he was a child, this might not have been much of an issue but to a modern day audience I think this is quite powerful and really expresses Seatter as a person who had to grow up and mature quite fast and I think with the ending of the poem he has chosen to identify as someone who was in need of help and got lost between accepting things to be right or wrong.

I believe that with his maturity, Seatter has identified what is wrong with the world and how a child's view can be completely different to something that could have quite an effect on the person you grow up to become. I think he has chosen his identity by being so expressionist within his own work as all his work represents a thought, feeling or memory he has once had.