look we have coming to dover! - daljit nagra Flashcards
‘stowed in the sea to invade’
hide away
negative connotations
wrong people - outsiders
‘gobfuls of surf phlegmed’
spitting - what migrants experienced
illness
‘huddled camouflage’
pushed in together - poor living conditions
don’t want to be seen
‘crumble of scummed cliffs’
cacophonic
waste
‘thunder unbladders yobbish rain’
urinated on
‘unclocked by the national eye’
not noticed by people
stay away from natives
‘whistling asthma of parks’
weather change
bad healthcare
‘burdened, enobled’
celebrated by family
seen as a burden by those in britain
‘banking on the miracle sun’
one day they’ll be accepted
‘passport us to life’
given legitimacy
citizenship in society - can’t be deported
become part of british culture
‘charged glasses over unparasol’d tables’
not hidden
sign of progress
‘babbling our lingoes, flecked by the chalk of britannia’
developing language
colloquial language
structure
concrete poetry - reflects the cliffs of dover and waves of migrants
headlines
the poor treatment of migrants
the struggle that immigrants face
the hope migrants have to be accepted into society
tension between the promise of a new life and the pressure of displacement
migrants can only be comfortable once they’ve been accepted
