- This poem contributes to the themes of British migrant experience, race, identity and discrimination. Also talkes about the persona's life in Guyana and now in london.
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What is the poem Speechless about?
Gnerational differences and music. Focuses on his mother's lack of freedom and her controlling father, their is a conflict in generations and culture
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What is the poem Speechless II about?
Themes of music, not having a voice and being excluded because of his race. Jacob is not content with his own freedom and envies the freedom others have, he has been promised the freedom his mother never had.
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What is the poem Speechless III about?
Themes include faith, music and racial discrimination. Jacob feels alienated and isolated from the rest of society because of his race. Uses music as a way of expressing himself.
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What is the poem Speechless IV about?
Theme of having a voice and reflects the title ‘breaking silence'. Reference to oppression and how others use their voice in negative ways within society
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What is the poem Speechless V about?
His anguish that he feels with the education system and the constraints of what he can say and do. Lack of voice and identity for himself and other students.
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What is the poem an Undisclosed Fortune about?
The persona's mother is trying to bring her baby back to life by performing a self sacrificial act of sucking the mucus from its nose. Jacob wants to recognise the unexpected nature of reality and life and death
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What is the poem Plummeting about?
The persona [third person] is playing Basketball, we can recognise the amount of time and effort he has devoted to this game and how much he wants to 'silence the hoop' by being perfect at the game
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What is the poem A Spell for Forgetting a father about?
Fatherhood, absenteeism. Spiritual and religious connotations, he speaks of how you can remember your father and performs a spiritual act to do so.
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What is the poem Here, Spirits about?
Jacob talks about a libation, a ritual pouring of a liquid as an offering to a god or spirit or in memory of those who have died. Jacob talks about eating food, quite messily and the offerings given to the spirits. He feeds the spirits to comfort him
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What is the poem Song for a Spent 100w Bulb about?
Implies themes of light and darkness, music and faith. It describes a light bulb in whichthe light has been emptied out of the bulb and it has lost its purpose. It is an unexpected and sudden mortality. Shows the impermeanence in life.
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What is the poem Make Some Noise about?
Themes of Generational differences and music. His mother does not understand his love for music and he sees music as a religion, something that gives him faith.
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What is the poem Magnitude about?
- The overriding theme her is slavery, but it also contributes to race and discrimination. He uses an analogy of rice to show the sheer magnitude of slavery and the amount of people it affected
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What is the poem Magnitude II about?
Jacob talks about one of his students and his girlfriend. Her blood arrows back up to royalty and the boy is a son of a slave. Their is no future for them but he can look to the past for security.
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What is the poem Turning Darker Still about?
A 'rider' alone and stranded in a white hot desert, searching for darkness and water and something familiar. Themes of identity, race and oppression within society
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What is the poem After Lazerdrome, Mcdonalds, Peckham Rye?
Themes of music as a religion, faith and youth. The persona describes his time in south-east london and how music has brought him and others together.
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What is the poem Speechless about?
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Gnerational differences and music. Focuses on his mother's lack of freedom and her controlling father, their is a conflict in generations and culture
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