Comparing Hurrican Hits England and Not my Business Essay -- Grace Nic

Comparing Hurrican Hits England and Not my BusinessThe ii verse forms I am to comp ar are Grace Nichols Hurricane HitsEngland a poem that shows that the whole world is single world and how a surprise reminds a Caribbean woman of home. The author obviously missesher home country and feels it in the storm which she wrote about, theviolence of the storm is harsh and causes some damage. The secondpoem, with which I ordain be comparing Hurricane... is Niyi OsundaresNot my Business. This poem describes the ferocious and horrific naturein which the Nigerian Government treated those large number who disagreedwith the state. It describes the pain and suffering they forced uponthese people and how the pain and suffering is then brought to thenarrator.This poem is about shared responsibilities and the way that tyrannygrows if no one opposes it. It is composed, simply, of three storiesabout victims of the oppressors, followed by the experience of the give tongue toer in the poem, in which he has not done anything, but the factthat he knows makes him a target. The poet is Nigerian but thesituation in the poem could be from some countries, there are wordsused like yam, and the call of the people which tell you this. Thepoem echoes, in its four parts, a relation by Pastor MartinNiemller, who opposed the Nazis. Speaking later to many audiences hewould conclude with these words, more or lessFirst, they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out becauseI was not a socialist. Then they came for the look at unionists, and Idid not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they camefor the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Thenthey came for me, and there was no one left to speak... ...oem.The eventually lines of this poem emphasise the confusion surrounding whereforethey are there. The line,The jeep was waiting on my bewildered lawn is personification whichsuggests that no-one, not even his lawn, knows why its happening. Andthen a repetition of the word Waiting makes it bet as though themen have to do a serve of waiting and that time maybe seems to go soslowly because of these things that are happening. Both of these poems are excellent at enforcing their own point intheir own ways, Hurricane through tactile emotional words andbeautiful even violent images of the storm, and Not My Business.through blatant disregard for human look depicted through the eyes ofa hunted man, who is hunted because he knows what is going on. All inall two excellent and vigorous thought out poems, each with their ownperfectly presented message.