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Title: Island man


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Island man
  • Grace Nichols

2
Imagine
  • What can you see?
  • How idyllic is this image to you?
  • How would you feel to live here?

3
  • Island Man
  • (for a Caribbean island man in London who still
    wakes up to the sound of the sea)
  • Morning
  • And island man wakes up
  • To the sound of blue surf
  • In his head
  • The steady breaking and wombing
  • wild seabirds
  • and fisherman pushing out to sea
  • the sun surfacing defiantly
  • from the east
  • of his small emerald island
  • he always comes back groggily groggily

4
Colour contrast, not vibrant but drab
Change of perspective here
a busy road around London
Repetition, as if he cannot believe it, or is
reluctant to acknowledge
Suggest comparison of a man having himself on to
an island
Stark last line, physically isolated, with no
preposition or verb
Capital letters but no punctuation in poem
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