English coursework

Where the places are in London and the Caribbean that’s for Island Man, the poet Grace Nichols has

used a lot of metaphors’ to describe both places.

The poet uses Emerald to describe the island he is on so it means that the Emerald is very precious

and also very delicate, with palm trees and green foliage.

Wombing is another word for the closeness and also the safety of the island describe in the poem.

This is the tropical side of Island man, on the other side it begins with goggily groggily which he man

is waking up in London.

The pillow he sleeps on reminds him of the sea, but now he wakes up another London day means

that he is back to reality and quite depressed and weary.

He thinks that he is on the beach but then he wakes up to f ind out that he is in London which is a

another London day. The poem also uses onomatopoeia to make it sound real/ to make you feel like

you are there.

The place set for nothing’s changed is South Africa in district six.

The poem talks about a little boy who we think is a slave and who had just returned after the

Apartheid system ended and then he pressed up against the window ‘leaving small mean O’.

Anger of my eyes what he is saying is he still a pauper in this modern day. ‘No sign says it is: but we

know where we belong’ they are much better then us and have a lot more money. They eat in the

posh restaurants with white linen table clothes, and also crystal glasses.

I get a chow (cheap snack) which I eat with my fingers and wipe the grease down my jean.

From the days of apartheid nothing seems to have changed .

Similarities

The title is involved in the poem; there is a good and bad in the poem. The poems are all about

different cultures.

The males are both dreaming and hoping to be in a better place.

Differences

In nothing’s changed the boy is very poor and there is no poverty in Island man

In Island man there is no full stops in the whole poem but in Nothing’s Changed there is a no full

stop.