Poems Flashcards
(9 cards)
Who wrote Colonisation in reverse?
This is a poem by Louise Bennett, a
great comic poet and satirist from
Jamaica, who was well-known for her
radio persona “Miss Lou”. The poem
jokes about immigrants from the
Caribbean reversing colonialism by
returning to “the mother lan” and “de
seat a de Empire”.
Who wrote the interchapter about Midnights children?
Marina Mckay
Who wrote foxglove country ? What is it about?
Zaffar Kunial
suggests a correlation between nation and imagination. It says that English exclusivity is an imagined concept. It usese allusions, first-person. Depicts a foxglove which can be both toxic and have medicinal purposes. Comes from the poem collection “Englands Green “
what is a pastoral poem?
A poem that celebrates the innocent life of sheperds and shepardesses i poems, plays and prose
Who wrote “ This in Land”, Inkling and Font, Ings, snowdrop and what are these about?
Zaffar Kunial
This in Land is about the personal and national history embedded in its flora and languge. It explores who is in and who is out.
In each stanza there is a metaphor,
1. butterfly effect
Snowdrop has repitition of pronouns, expresses strenght and resillience, there is a usefull to everything, even dead things are useful. The dead is alive.
Who wrote “Look we have Coming to Dover” what is it about?
Daljiit Nagra wrote this poem.
Immigrant experience coming to Dover. Alludes to Matthew Arnolds poem “Dover Beach”
Who wrote “Broadcasting house”, “Vox populi, Vox dei” and “He do the foreign voices “, Explain these poems.
Dajlit Nagra, he dissects everything BBC stands for in broadcasting house, vox populi is about brexit and politics, he do foregin voices is about language.
Who is Zaffar Kunial ?
Zaffar Kunial is a British poet born in Birmingham, who currently lives in Shipley, Yorkshire.His mother was English and his father, who has since moved to Lahore, is from Kashmir.
He works as a full-time ‘Creative Writer’ for Hallmark cards in West Yorkshire.
Who is Daljit Nagra?
Daljit Nagra’s parents came to Britain from the Punjab,
India, in the late 1950s. Nagra comes from a Sikh
background and was born and grew up in West
London then Sheffield.
He worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time
