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the full poem of ISLAND MAN
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Answer 1

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Morning

And Island man wakes up

To the sound of blue surf

In his head

The steady breaking and wombing

Wild seabirds

And fisherman pulling out to sea

The sun surfacing defiantly

From the east

Of his small emerald island

He always comes back groggily groggily

Comes back to sands

Of a grey metallic soar

To surge of wheels

To dull North Circular roar

Muffling muffling

His crumpled pillow waves

Island man heaves himself

Another London day

Answer 2

Grace Nichols and Island Man

Island Man is a short poem that focuses on the cultural identity of a Caribbean man who wakes up in real time London but who is still dreaming about his native island.

Through astute use of imagery and metaphor the poem juxtaposes the two environments within the mind of the third person speaker.

The main theme is the cultural split experienced by this individual, the contrasts between the two, island life versus city life.

Grace Nichols based her poem on her actual real life experiences when she first came to the UK and London in 1977. She lived close to the busy North Circular Road in London and the traffic noise reminded her of the sea surf back 'home' in the Caribbean.

It was first published in 1984 in her book The Fat Black Woman's Poems, which concentrates on cultural divides from the female perspective, and uses both Creole (Caribbean language) and English.

'It's important for me to embrace both languages because of the constant interaction between the two cultures.'

As the poem has no punctuation the reading of this poem becomes more challenging. Natural breaks and pauses occur, especially towards the end of the poem, the rhythms changing line by line, and the reader has to negotiate line endings and breaks which slow the whole poem down from time to time.

Grace Nichols was born in Guyana in 1950. Despite this country being part of South America it is closely tuned into Caribbean island culture (with its historical links to Britain) so her poem relates to the experience of a man newly arrived in Britain's capital city, London.

He feels isolated and lonely and still connects the new sounds and images with his former home island life. He dreams the ideal - blue sky and emerald isle - yet in reality lives surrounded by dull tarmac and noisy traffic.

The title itself is ambiguous. This man now lives on the island of Great Britain but was born on a Caribbean island. Essentially he is torn between the two but belongs to both. He cannot ever forget his roots or his memories but has to live in the here and now to survive.Island Man

Morning

and island man wakes up

to the sound of blue surf

in his head

the steady breaking and wombing

wild seabirds

and fishermen pushing out to sea

the sun surfacing defiantly

from the east

of his small emerald island

he always comes back groggily groggily

Comes back to sands

of a grey metallic soar

to surge of wheels

to dull North Circular roar

muffling muffling

his crumpled pillow waves

island man heaves himself

Another London day

Analysis of Island Man

Island Man is a free verse poem of five stanzas, 19 lines in total.

There is no set rhyme scheme or metre (meter in American English) but some line endings rhyme, for example: sea/defiantly/groggily and soar/roar bringing a temporary and loose sense of familiarity.

With no punctuation the poem becomes informal and free flowing, the reader challenged to pause at the right time and for the right length of time. It's a kind of stream of consciousness narrative, the speaker observing this individual waking up from a dream perhaps, with these images and sounds in his head.

The poem starts off with a single word, Morning, simple and direct, as if this is totally normal or something of a revelation. Either way, the scene is set. Here is the man waking up, the island man, which suggests that this is an independent person, isolated maybe all by himself.

There are sounds and colours - blue surf - the waves are breaking but only in his head; mentally he's far away in the Caribbean, the reader not yet aware of the the contrasting physical reality.

Note the line length and breaks. The second and third lines have the same number of syllables (slightly different rhythm) and both flow into the shorter fourth line where a natural caesura makes the reader pause, reflecting the wave break.

The fifth line is interesting as it describes the waves breaking one by one but what about that word wombing, a verb which suggests birth, home, motherhood and nurturing?

It applies to the sea, the sea giving birth, gestation and safety, the natural mother.

The second stanza further elaborates this ideal image of the island life. The birds, the fishermen, are actively working at sea, the sun personified is rising from the east, the direction of the new day.

Note the personal touch...it's his emerald island, as if he were the owner.

That last line of the second stanza sees a repeated groggily, groggily he returns to reality. His mind isn't quite alert, he's still between world, between cultures as he wakes up.

The first line of the third stanza combines the two - he returns from the island sands but no, they're not island sands at all, they're grey and metallic and seem to rise. There is a surge of wheels, surge being a strong movement, along the North Circular, a major road in London, which produces a dull roar.

This contrast, of sea and road, of surf and traffic, of ideal and reality, is what makes the poem tick.

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