Afro-Caribbean Poetry Essay

In this essay I allow be studying the various items of poetry from manyAfro-Caribbean poets. One of the poets is Langston Hughes who wasborn in Joplin, Missouri on the first of February 1902. He started piece of music poetry after moving to Lincoln, Illinois. The metrical compositions I will bestudying be Mulatto and I, to a fault.The succeeding(a) poet I will be looking at is Grace Nichols. Nichols was bornin Guyana in 1950, she came to England in 1977 this is when shedeveloped her fiction and verse writing. The poem I will be studying isPraise metrical composition for my mother.The succeeding(prenominal) poet I will look at will be Dr benzoin Obadiah lqualZephaniah, he was born in Birmingham, but he spent most of histime in Jamaica. After he spent almost time in prison he decided to practisehis energy for superb and educate himself. The poem I will study I loveme mudder.The last poet work I will be looking at will be John Agard. Agard wasborn in Guyana in 1949, the count ry was lock in a British colony until1966. In 1977 Agard moved to England. This is where he became thelight of the radical West Indian British dawn of various bardiccompositions. Agard is a poet whom blends calypso styled languagewith alone(predicate) sounding spoken excogitate.The work I will be studying isHalf-casteI seduce paired the poems up. The pairs either share the same topic,tone or language. One of the pairs is Half-caste by John Agard andMulatto by Langston Hughes, because they constitute the same type oftopic and also tone.Half caste is round weather the term half-caste lot be applied toany thing else apart from battalion. John Agard has written a very betterpoem witch makes you think about the words we use every day without penetrating the proper meanings and whether it makes any sensewhen you break the word down. I think that many words we use noware out of date and should be changed for politically correct termsand alternatives. Agard also uses some stunni ng references to get youthinking.The other half of this pair Mulatto tells us about the harshtreatment sour women faced at the hands of their white bosses inthe slave era and how the women were only used as play things, thisis shown in the part Whats a body but a toy?. The word mulattomeans the same as half caste but not as many mint use itnowadays. The boy in the story has a trouble fitting in with blackpeople and white people and does not deport that sense of belonging ifhe had been born to parents of the same race.The next pair is Praise song for my mother by Grace Nichols and Ilove me mudder by Benjamin Zephaniah. Ive paired these poemsbecause they share the same topics which is their mothers.Praise song for my mother is about how Grace Nichols love hermother and how she inspired to do the best she could. Its also howshe looked up to her, and how her mother was all the things she likes such as the sunrise and the fried plantain smell. The poem is set in apast tense up which seems to tell us the readers that her mother hasdied.The second half of my pair is I love me mudder. This poem is abouthow Benjamin Zephaniahs mother came from Jamaica on a boatcalled Windrush. Many people came from Jamaica because theythought they would have a better brio than the one they all ready had.In black family family (need to delete this) life the figure of themother is very strong and is the main rule maker in the house, andthis poem shows how she whole kit and boodle so hard just to make sure her familydont go without.The last pair of poems is asperse by Grace Nichols and I, Too byLangston Hughes these two poems have been joined together becausethey both have kind of the same topic which shows the pain blackpeople have overcome but still yet we are strong.taint is about the treachery that this mortal has had cast uponthem while they where a slave, the item that they where stolen by menthe colour of their own skin. This reminds me of the black on blackgang warfare and killings.This person who trusted the people of theirsame skin colour was betrayed. This work also shows how thesepeople where traded like they where animals. The poem has amessage to everyone to stop fighting and live peacefully together.The second half of the pair is I, Too which shows how black peoplehad to eat in a kitchen when company came but they ate well andbecame strong. So when company comes no one will dare tell me toeat in the kitchen and now you are ashamed about what you did tome when I was mentally weak. This poem has a promise of hope forchange. Hughes suggests that Tomorrow things will be different andpeople will see that beauty and equality of all peoples.