The poem that I will be analysing is, Island man. I ‘m going to find out how the poet (Grace Nichols) conveys the experience of living between two different cultures. This will show how the Island man feels about his original home and his new home. But also it will show how greatly the Island man loves the Caribbean and then talks about the dull, unwelcoming London.
In the beginning the ‘Island Man’ still wakes up every morning to the sounds of his happy memories of his life in the Caribbean. However, his dreams of the Caribbean are different with the reality of his life in the dullness of London. In the third sentence of the first stanza, we can visualise and hear the sea because first it talks about the ‘sound of blue surf’ and specifically what the colour of the sea is. The last line is a very effective line because the word ‘Steady’ suggests how people’s life on the Island goes and how cheerful they are, when they wake up every morning because they know and he knows, that ever day it’s different. It’s sort of like every day for him it’s an adventure. Also it shows there are no barriers to stop them from doing whatever they want. This conveys the experience in the Caribbean and then contrasting it with the life in London and how boring and hard life is. These two words ‘Breaking and wombing’. This holds some different meaning, firstly womb. Womb carries a baby and protects and nurtures it from all dangers and the baby gets all the love and food it needs. But then it’s says ‘Breaking’, this shows that he was taken away from that protection, like a mother separated from a baby (Island separated away from the man).
The Term Paper on “Island Man” and “The Fringe Of The Sea”
I recently read two poems entitled “Island Man” and “The Fringe Of The Sea”. They are both similar in theme, but they also have many differences. Both poems are based on the emotions of people who live near the sea and their feelings towards it. This theme relates to both of the authors, and connects them; the author of “The Fringe Of The Sea”, A.L. Hendricks, ...
And this must have been painful and sad for him because he was taken away from somewhere he knew and loved and then put into a world full of machines and skyscrapers.
Now the second stanza goes more into detail about the Island and the culture itself and how radiant, loving place it is to be. The third sentence says ‘the sun surfacing defiantly’. The word ‘defiantly’ shows a technique being used, personification, which means that the sun is fiercely bright and we get the impression that this happens every day on the Island and then we look at London’s views and weather, where there is rarely any sun. Where it says ‘his small emerald island’ this suggests that the island is beautiful and peaceful because of the two words: ‘small, emerald’. Unlike London, there is no peace around the area and that everything is all man-made elements. The word ‘small’ really suggests that the Island is his own and is personnel to him, so basically he was stolen from that place and moved to another place. Then on the last line, ‘he always comes back groggily groggily’. The sentence shows us that he has the Caribbean dream several times and that he always feels like he is actually there. The last two words ‘groggily groggily’ suggest when he wakes up he feels almost depressed and uncared for because he is in London, a place where he not knows of.
First and second stanzas tells about the beauty and peacefulness of the place and she describes all the things that happens there and everything is in a flow, but then in the third stanza she starts to describe London as a dull, unhappy place to be and how life is a rigid structure for the people living there. There is a huge contrast between natural elements and man-made elements. She talks about the ‘grey metallic soar’ and ‘surge of wheels’. These all relates to things in London and the way it’s written sounds depressing. She then talks about the surge of wheels. This tells us that everything is so rushed and busy in London and everyone has a rigid time structure to follow.
The Essay on The World is a Smaller Place these Days
Good morning to the respected panel of judges, teachers and fellow competitors that is present for the Public Speaking competition today. My name is Saratha, and I’ll be representing my beloved school Dato Bentara Dalam. Public speaking is the “sine qua non“of leadership. Without it, you cannot lead. With it, you can “lead nations, raise armies, inspire victories and blow fresh courage into the ...
The last stanza talks about the ‘crumpled pillow waves’ this relates to the Caribbean and is using adjectives to describe how the pillow waves form the sea waves back in the Caribbean. She has used lots of techniques to bring the fluency into the poem. The word ‘heaves’ suggests he drags out of bed because he knows it’s going to be a bad day and also it relates back to the Caribbean about when fishermen heaves the nets out of the ocean.
Grace has left the last line on its own; ‘Another London Day’. These three words suggest he isn’t looking forward to the day because everything in London is the same and the work he does will be the same everyday and he has to follow the rigid structured life, which he regrets. It sounds so depressing and slow, especially the word ‘Another’ makes us instantly bored, which is the same feeling for the Island man.
The whole poem hasn’t got any punctuations, the reason why is because Grace Nichols wants the poem to go smoothly without any barriers and it is just like on the island, where there is no plan or way to life his or her life. Everything moves fluently and they go with how the day goes. This clearly shows the rigid, hard structure it is in London and how people has things on their minds which stresses them out so much and then how free peoples minds are in the Caribbean. Grace Nichols clearly shows all of this in the poem and how big the difference is in their cultures.
