Thursday, May 30, 2019
Comparing Hurrican Hits England and Not my Business Essay -- Grace Nic
Comparing Hurrican Hits England and Not my BusinessThe two rimes I am to compare are Grace Nichols Hurricane HitsEngland a poem that shows that the whole world is one world and how astorm reminds a Caribbean woman of home. The author obviously missesher home country and feels it in the storm which she wrote about, the forcefulness of the storm is harsh and causes some damage. The secondpoem, with which I will be comparing Hurricane... is Niyi OsundaresNot my Business. This poem describes the violent and horrific recordin which the Nigerian Governwork forcet treated those people who disagreedwith the state. It describes the pain and suffering they forced uponthese people and how the pain and suffering is then brought to thenarrator.This poem is about dual-lane responsibilities and the way that tyrannygrows if no one opposes it. It is composed, simply, of three storiesabout victims of the oppressors, followed by the experience of thespeaker in the poem, in which he has not done anyt hing, only the factthat he knows makes him a target. The poet is Nigerian but thesituation in the poem could be from galore(postnominal) countries, there are wordsused kindred yam, and the names of the people which tell you this. Thepoem echoes, in its four parts, a statement by Pastor MartinNiemller, who opposed the Nazis. Speaking later to many audiences hewould conclude with these words, more or lessFirst, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out becauseI was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and Idid not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they camefor the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Thenthey came for me, and there was no one left to speak... ...oem.The last lines of this poem emphasise the confusion surrounding whythey are there. The line,The jeep was waiting on my bewildered lawn is personification whichsuggests that no-one, not even his lawn, knows why its happening. Andthen a repetition of the word Waiting makes it seem as though themen have to do a lot of waiting and that time maybe seems to go soslowly because of these things that are happening. Both of these poems are handsome at enforcing their own point intheir own ways, Hurricane through tactile emotional words andbeautiful yet violent images of the storm, and Not My Business.through blatant give the sack for human life depicted through the eyes ofa hunted man, who is hunted because he knows what is going on. All inall two excellent and well thought out poems, each with their ownperfectly presented message.
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