... to suggest that cultural beliefs can be overpowering, influencing and controlling judgement and rational thought in the light of modern thinking, knowledge and education. As all of the poems are written by poets from different cultures, they all raise issues related ...

... death. This is very similar to one of the reason why Joolz would have written her poem both were very close to these people and felt a lot of anguish at there passing. Both would have wanted to be ...

... poem the author uses a lot of repetition of the word 'and'. In the third stanza, 'apple bright', the apple is the highest point of tension, anger, but the poet describes it as bright and pretty. The last two lines of ...

... waves of the Caribbean. In the second stanza the man is also thinking about the Caribbean and the wild sea birds and the fishermen pushing their boats out to sea. I feel that the reason why the Caribbean man is ...

... these hills they have built the concrete That trails black wire; Pylons' This quote explains how the hills were peaceful until the pylons had taken over and that the land had been desecrated by concrete, which was not of the natural ground. The structure ...

... Harry bullies his sister. We think this because the poem reads, "Harry pushed her;/He pushed his sister;" the reader automatically comes to the conclusion that Harry pushes her in a violent way. The repetition of the word "push" is very ...

... the repetition is used to comfort her , in still I rise the repetition is used to stress her confidence in a brighter future therefore the poem ends in hope. However a significant difference between the two poems is that they ...

... has a very routine life full of chaos and very tiring. She sounds like as if she is living slightly in poverty as she has to tend her children's clothes instead of buying new clothes. She could have a lot ...

... of a heart attack. His poem, 'I Shall Return' shows he wanted other people to be grateful for what they had, and to show he had happier times in his childhood. Also, it's the start of your life; the only ...

... strong visual image of what the rest of the poem is about. "Ten to make and a match to win" is similar to that of a game of cricket, and as in cricket, it gives a certain tension of the ...

... the following "the ear harkened, the busy morning cries came thin and spare". Contrast is used there, normal loudness and today's quiet scenery. Another poem shows the enjoyable activities winter brings, but also shows the inconvenience. The owl sings "merry note", ...

... poets come from the same culture, which is black. Grace Nichols originally came from Guyana and Maya Angelou originally came from Missouri. Both poets are black each poem suggests this in its own individual way as in the poem "Still ...

... first verse the tone is angry because she's saying about things that she is not. The speaker in the poem is Maya Angelou because she is saying why she doesn't like the way the women are treated in her culture. ...

... one about hags. Both drunk and hags and considered as the lowest of people and are a huge contrast between soldiers of the time, who were highly respected. In the poem 'Refugee Blues', a Jewish man is talking to his ...

... instance "splash", "rush", "flow" and "crashes". These words all have an association with water because that is the dream the villagers had, more water. Dharker has included a lot of religious language to the poem as well as if to ...

... also ignores her but she knows that her voice is heard by someone if not her partner. It seems that she was loved at first but then her partner decided to move on. She doesn't want to be a light ...

... The son feels shame towards his father. He hates his father because every time he goes to collect his father from a drunken state his father curses him "Go to hell yuh little bitch". He sees his father as a ...

... find that Hiroshima has become a major tourist attraction, but is consoled by visiting the Park of Peace and the Peace Tower at the Atomic Bomb Explosion Centre to find that the dead have not been forgotten. Throughout the poem ...

... images contrast with the warm, affectionate description of Brendon in Kay's poem, which show all that Brendon, meant to her. Kay's poverty images, like Brendon's father in prison, his large family and his hopes to make a better life for his ...

... lead her to her death. The first stanza is full of religious images which the young female is being compared to Virgin Mary, "anointment of her breast" The religious image continuous into the second stanza, which religious and sexual images are ...

... is desperately trying to hold on to. The second pupil in 'Comprehensive' is a boy named 'Wayne,' who is depicted as a stereotypical boy. He is precocious in the way he thinks he is 'too old for games' and believes he ...

... ' My Last Duchess' it was 'Too easily impressed; she like whate'er. The writer in the poems are trying to say relationships break down for one reason or another, in these cases it's infidelity, one person casting off someone for others, ...

... doesn't feel the fretwork is only iron but the English culture is there stopping her and not the iron frame. Or it could even be herself that is stopping her because she is afraid of not fitting in since she ...

... that when you are an adult you have to conform and as she says, "We must have friends to dinner." When you get old you can do whatever you want like having a weight lifted off you shoulders, you're free. Most old ...

... from the weather, and hallucinating from its effects. The poem 'Spring Offensive' is set in a different scene but there is still a lot of detail to nature and the soldiers. The poem is about a group of soldiers who wait ...