'I come from'-identity

How does the speaker 'I come from' create a sense of his identity?

In the poem 'I come from' the poet creates a sense of identity by using a stream of conciousness as the re is no obvious rhythm or rhythm, which shows that the speaker is consciously thinking about his identity.When the poet uses the words 'a family of teachers and yet more teachers' he creates a sense of his identity for the speaker because he comes from a well educated family and who's expectations for him would have been high, however if he didn't pursued the career that many of his family had followed he may have been made to feel inadequate and possibly seen as a deviant within the family making him an outsider.

In addition the speaker goes from discussing his past as being in an upper-class family and then goes to describing his surroundings at a dangerous lower class urban area. this could suggests that the speakers identity is rooted between two opposite classes meaning he shows the contrast between the two, leaving him to be seen as as a drifter who perhaps doesn't fit in to any social class as he carries the experiences and struggles that both social classes face.

Furthermore, the speakers creates a sense of his identity when he says 'a man who followed me back from the library' the speaker only briefly mentions this incident  and move on completely.The fact that he doesn't go into detail about such a life threatening ordeal suggests that speaker chooses to avoid the issue because he is either traumatised and it is a too painful of a topic to liner on, however, him mentioning it at all could mean he has something to hide and felt that it was vital for him  to mention it because its contributes to the idea of what shaped his identity.

The speaker creates a sense of his identity when he says 'from the sound through the night of trains, trains, trains'. When the speaker repeats the word trains three times it could suggest that he is someone who is haunted by memories, which are triggered by the thoughts and sound of trains  going back and forth repetitively.