Alienation Flashcards
TLL: ‘some strange place on another planet’
HoD: ‘Wore the aspect of an unknown planet
‘as if is’
-change in tense
= discombobulation of immigrants
‘I wish i was like allyou Jamaican’
grouping
‘cardboard box’ ‘paperbag’ straw hat’
- semantic field of flimisness and fragility
- not stable in London
‘I hope you don’t find our weather too cold for you”
- seperation in pronouns
- ‘malicioisuly- no shame in hiding
‘you does smoke’?
- desire to be in altered state of mind- numbing boreness and lonliness
‘still every man on his own’
lonely
‘London not like port of spain’
London not like Kingston’
everything what London is not like- uncomfortbale
‘Tear the treasure out of the bowels of the land’
‘bowels’ essential aid human digestion
pathos is created towards nature
-link to ‘streets of london paved with gold’
‘El Dorado’
‘the gilded one’ myth of a hidden city full of gold- also symbolised riches fulfilment and opportunity = link to streets of london paved with gold
‘a butcher round one corner, a policeman round another’
symbolise abundance of food and security- compared to pilgrims who live in constant fear of starvation and attack
-link to TLL police man
‘her hair was done in the shape of a helmet’
‘armor’ implies psychological formidability = only other Africans can penetrate mind and heart
- alliteration = impenetrable to the Europenas
‘forgetting to speak proper English
