... By using this technique Nichols shows to the reader how highly she thinks, not only her close family, but of the people of her origin. She uses the idea of water to represent strength, protection and a necessity for life. ...

... tropical oceans, moisture, and relatively light winds aloft. If the right conditions persist long enough, they can combine to produce the violent winds, incredible waves, torrential rains, and floods we associate with this phenomenon. Satellite image of hurricane Ivan ...

... is unsure of the reasons for which she is going, but also she actually misses the splendour of the humming-bird. This verse also uses a metaphor as the sun is generally thought of as an almost heavenly entity as it ...

... gigantic raindrops that pounded the roof and a roar of thunder that was angry and metallic shook me to my bones. Lightening flashed at every angle, like a fire works display gone wrong. The wind picked up speed and took ...

... words like 'our culture', and 'your own'. This clearly shows that she sees white coloured people as being different to blacks. I think that she sees the world population split into two - black people against the rest of the ...

... another where they catch fish differently, she finds it strange. She has a lot of positive memories of her culture and now she is in a new one, it contrasts with the way she was brought up. Religion and morals ...

... take revenge on her master for treating her as a slave and an animal. She is very threatening against her master this is shown when she says "Bone in yuh throat And laugh in yuh skull I coming back." (L: ...

... a musical beat in the poem which suggests maybe an African/Jamaican culture. The structure of the poem is done in the way in which a person would travel under the limbo stick and then rise up again. "Long dark night ...

... narrative structure and these two black men, I believe, are meant too represent a large majority of people moving from countries suffering from extreme poverty to countries such as England which in theory, will offer them a much better quality ...

... and onomatopoeia. These can appeal to the reader's five senses and add impact to keep the reader interested in the piece. There are lots of rhetorical questions in Hurricane Hits England, as if the narrator is asking or pleading to Huracan, ...

... and onomatopoeia. These can appeal to the reader's five senses and add impact to keep the reader interested in the piece. There are lots of rhetorical questions in Hurricane Hits England, as if the narrator is asking or pleading to Huracan, ...

... oral poems written in Creole dialect. The repeated phrase in 'Up My Spine is more violent than 'The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping' where it is more social. Grace Nichols has used rhyme in parts of each poem, in ...

... for certain atmospheric and weather conditions only found there. Most hurricanes originate on the west coast of Africa, in the form of thunderstorms. As these thunderstorms move westwards over the ocean, they become low-pressure systems; first in the form of ...

... that he knows makes him a target. The poet is Nigerian but the situation in the poem could be from many countries, there are words used like "yam", and the names of the people which tell you this. The poem ...

... anthologies as well as writing her own collections and performing regularly. Through her personal background we come to a conclusion that the issue of culture is so important to Grace Nichols because of the sudden change in her culture when ...

... be taken away, speechless, by two police officers and the children scatter in all directions. Alternatively, Nichols's story is of her strongly religious Aunt Marie, who Nichols persecuted by stealing her rosary, to see the effect it had on her ...

... pulled from one culture to another. 'Hurricane hits England' appears to be more organised at first sight, however it is similar to 'Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan' because it also is arranged in stanzas all different lengths and follows no ...

... has set her free and this helps her recognize her cultural identity. "It took the hurricane to bring her closer to the landscape." Nichols used to live in the Caribbean were Hurricanes weren't as unusual. Heaney is from rural Ireland and ...

... to help us understand what the woman is thinking: "Tell me why you visit an English coast?" the woman finds it strange that a kind of tropical storm should hit England; it is very unusual. "What is the meaning of ...

... This heat, from the solar short-wave radiation and convectional currents, will heat the air above it. The warm air will then rise, cooling adiabatically until the air condenses. But the rising air alone does not make a Hurricane as this ...

... in her native land. However, as an immigrant to England, this kind of weather had not emerged to remind her of these god-like forces. The hurricane of 1987 (which the poem refers to) changed all that. The weather in England ...

... wearing. 'Pink and white glass bangles snapped, drew blood' This shows that the poet is not familiar with the culture as she was not sure how to put these bangles on. 'I tried each satin-silken top-was alien in the sitting room' ...

... colours, 'glistening like an orange split open'. She uses 'Peacock Blue' which a very exotic, bright and extravagant colour which is representing the atmosphere conditions of Pakistan. She also writes about the photos, that although don't represent the culture they ...

... she lay awake, The howling ship of the wind, Its gathering rage, Like some dark ancestral spectre. The poem begins in the third person - a suggestion of distance - a lack of connection? Note the image of a ship ...

... England. There also seems to be so many of them looking so similar that you cannot tell them apart. This is also how she sees the people in England are like. The words at the end, 'splendour' and 'snow' are ...