Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Coming o Yams and Mangoes and Mountain Honey
- Language
Devices
- Rhyme
- "papaw" and "mascaw" in lines 8 and 9.
- This is in order to add a positive
rhythmto the poem
- Metaphor
- "Carubbean hills have moved"
- Introducing new tastes to the British society
- Mango soaked in sunshine"
- Creates imagery
- Simile
- "Congo-peas like warny pearls"
- "Pearls" connotate beauty and wealth
- Gives value to food- richness
- Use of Colours
- Shows a positive celebratative
tone which are connotations of
food festivals where cultures come
together to enjoy eachothers
dishes
- "green football"
- "fleshy green"
- "Big Brown O's"
- "Black Molasses"
- About the Poet
- Berry's writing often "explores
the relationship between black
and white communities
- James Berry is a Jamaican poet who
settled in England in the
1940s
- His works also evoke the Carabian
immigrants views towards Britain
and British Society
- About the Poem
- Berry shows contrast in a very
discreet manner
- "Breadfruit a green football"
- Constrasts the Caribbean's love for food and
England's love for football. This brings the
cultures together which is what the whole poem
is about.
- Structure
- The poem is written in 12 stanza with
45 lines
- The lack of sturcture could be an
implication of the ability to eat
whatever and whereever you want
- Analysis
- Repetition of "Caribbean hills have moved and come"
- "Red buses pass for donkeys now"
- Tone
- Throughout the poem, the tone is very
positive however there is an obvious
change in tone in lines 42 and 43.
- This could be because
- Alliteration and Unpredictible Collocation
- "Handful Hold Hidden Sunset
- The unpredictible collocation doesn''t sound right, this
puts an emphasis on the contrast of the two countries that
have similarities however they have their own specialities
- COLLOCATION:
sequence of words or
two words that often
go together