Fernando Masante Ayala
A01034962
Essay about the analysis of “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke and “Colonization in Reverse” by Louise Bennett.
Society uses poetry to build their brain, express what they feel by showing care and emotions. Writing poems and feelings are not as simple as they seem, they can be classified in many different aspects as the structure of the text, images and other stylistic devices to communicate their purposes. The purpose of this essay is to analyse the way the authors implement a purpose, the language they use, and how the lector receives images of what they are reading. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate how poems may have similarities and differences even though they have different points of view by the authors.
The purpose of the poem is important to know it because in that way the lector may identify some of the feelings or conditions in which the author of the poem was involved. The poem of Louise Bennett “Colonization in reverse” is about Jamaicans that feel proud because they are “colonising England”, this means that Jamaicans are looking for a better expectative of life, so they are forced to leave their home town to cross the sea and arrive to the huge island named England. Jamaicans had different opportunities there in England, some will get right down to work but some will make it to the dole. We can see how the purpose is showed at the end of the poem by wondering something that says “But me wonderin how dem gwine stan, Colonizin in reverse.” This means England brave the worst, and face war but the question is how they will manage colonizing in reverse. The poem “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke is about how special is England, this poem ignores every negative aspect this country have. The purpose of this poem is to persuade the reader to analyse only the positive aspects that a person living in England may enjoy.
The images of a poem can be perceived while reading the stanzas, this means that while the lector is reading he will imagine things that involve using the five senses that the human body have. In the poem “Colonization in reverse” in the phrase “I feel like me heart gwine burs´” the reader may imagine a heart pumping very fast, the human sense used here was the eyes with the memory as the brain probably shows a heart pumping very fast seen on the T.V last week, another example could be “or all day long she sits on Aunt Fan’s couch and reads her romance book” here another time the brain plays a role con the images, now the reader would probably imagine a person sitting on a couch reading a romance book. The “Soldier” may also give some strong arguments for what images in a poem means, “Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. “ in this phrase the reader may involve the smell of fresh water and all the nature that surrounds the river, also the lector may feel some heat as it is talking about the sun that England have, for instance, another example could be “Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; “ in this sentence the reader may receive some good smelling of the flowers.
The language use by the authors may be depending on their nationality, the poem “Soldier” it is more likely to be written by someone whose native language is English as Rupert Brooke used many complicated words that an A2 speaker may not understand that quickly as he does. By the other way the language used by Louise Bennett in “colonization in reverse” is the opposite as the soldier because now the one who wrote the poem is an A2 English speaker, so now a native speaker would have difficulties to understand the English she had.
In conclusion, there are many different ways to compare and contrast different poems, some of them will have some similarities but some of them don’t. “The Soldier” and “colonization in reverse” are written in the same language, have similar images and both are poems, their purpose are likely to be similar when referring to England, and their differences come when the author try to explain the point of view England.
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