Презентация на тему Exploring the Poem Grace Nichols “Hurricane Hits England”

1950, the fifth of seven children.
She was raised

to Georgetown, and at age sixteen she left high

of Guyana, Nichols worked as a journalist for the

working as a journalist.
After moving to England, away from

the storm reminded her of the great hurricanes of

In its content, the poem tells of the time when Nichols was kept awake during the “hurricane” that hit England in 1987.

feels more at home in England because of the

The poet describes the effect the hurricane has on her and her surroundings: “It took a hurricane to bring her closer to the landscape”.

and also how she used to feel isolated in

complicated, because it involves the poet’s own history of

is written as free verse, with eight stanzas of

how unpredictable the hurricane is – and how unpredictable

have noticeable rhythm – for example in the repetition

poet about the storm are mixed. Nichols describes it

and descriptive language to paint a picture in the

The main poetic devices: epithets, metaphors, similes, personifications, paradoxes convey the drama of the inner and outer storms.

natural imagery, mainly because it’s about the effect of

feelings, actions, or characteristics) to non-living objects.
For example,

claiming that it is a ghost coming to remind

that directly compares two different things, usually by employing

The poet uses a simile: “Like some dark ancestral spectre”.

out of a dark past.
The use of the

group of statements that lead to the contradiction or

blinding illumination…”. The storm both helps her to see

The storm seems alive and powerful, and seems to be trying to communicate with someone. It is dangerous – but at the same time bringing back happy memories of her childhood.

or phrase) accompanying or occurring in a place of

in which two things are compared, usually by saying

reap havoc in England. “Break the frozen lake in

“I’m riding the mystery of your storm”.
The character

group of lines that is repeated in the poem.

same consonant sounds at any place, but often at

vowel sounds. “I am aligning… I am following… I

help us to understand how the woman is feeling

language for the names of gods Hurragan, Oya and

matter in what part of the planet they live.

I tend to want to fuse the two tongues because I come from a background where the two worlds were constantly interacting”

come to the conclusion that the main themes of

poem, are to remember how storm makes you realize

warmth in her beautiful, though contradictious poem “Hurricane Hits