look we have coming to dover Flashcards
“stowed in the sea to invade”
- feelings of being unwelcome
- hiding and being illegally transported
“alfresco”
“cushy”
“blarnies”
purposefully using various words in the English language that come from foreign origins
- challenges the idea of the language being pure
“ratcheting speed”
- determined to emigrate and continue on their journey
“our”
plural first person pronoun
- broad perspective of immigrants
“unbladders yobbish rain”
personifies the sky raining on immigrants, disrespectful |(pathetic fallacy)
yobbish = rude
- English weather
“hutched in a Bedford van”
- dehumanising image of being unwanted and hiding
“hutched” - comparison of people to animals - zoomorphism
“seasons or years we reap”
- imagery of working and building a life
“unclocked by the national eye or stab in the back”
- prejudice of those around
- the feeling of not being secure and worry of betrayal
“whistling asthma of parks, burdened, ennobled”
- juxtaposition to show the two sided experience of anxiety and determination when emigrating
“poling sparks across pylon and pylon”
- symbolic + metaphorical
- represents the progression of time and emotions
“banking on the miracle of sun - span its rainbow, passport us to life”
imagery of weather - optimistic and hopeful tone
- “passport” - using noun as verb
- a passport is equivalent to freedom and the gain of your life
“be human to hoick ourselves”
pulling yourself up to feel secure
- colloquial
“Blair’d in the cash of our beeswax’d cars”
Tony Blair - a time of prosperity
- achieving better wealth and a better standard of living
“East, babbling our lingoes, flecked by the chalk of Britannia!”
- India is still a part of their identity, idea of a complex and combined identity
“flecked by the chalk of Britannia”
“chalk” - symbol of Britain
- female personification of Britain
