Look We Have Coming To Dover! By Daljit Nagra

The title
1. Purposefully incorrect, should read look we have come to Dover
  1. Hints that the narrator does not have English as a first language
2. Dover, most famous for its white cliffs
3. The exclamation mark shows the excitement of the narrator, implies it has been a long trip and they are relieved or that they are just pleased to be in England
Epigraphy: 'so various, so beautiful, so new'
1. From Matthew Arnolds poem 'Dover Beach'
2. Written in 1851, Arnold imagines the withdrawal of religion from England, and the conflict and disorder he thinks would follow
The aim of this poem
1. Daljit Nagra dislikes this new view on immigration and wants it to go back to how Matthew Arnold saw it
2. It questions the readers view of immigration by using sound imagery to almost place them there with the others
Language: colloquial, idioms, dialects-hybrid of language, alliteration, assonance, rhyme and half rhyme. Themes: identity, opposition, blending of cultures. Tone: satirical
Key Points
1. Numerous words are created by Nagra, 'Blair'd', 'beeswax'd' to show the merging of the two cultures which is not always shown as being particulally positive
2. Lots of animalistic imagery 'tourists prow'd', 'seagull and shoal life' to show the abuse the immigrants put up with

Resource summary

	Created by Becca Smith over 8 years ago