Kim Coates

Discuss the feeling of displacement in Islandman. DISCUSS THE FEELING OF DISPLACEMENT IN ISLANDMAN.COMPARE AND CONTRAST WITH ONE OTHER POEM OF YOUR CHOICE. Island Man is by Grace Nichols. It is about a man who originates from the Caribbean but still dreams of his homeland, and wakes up to the sound of the sea on the sand and the caw of wild birds. He now lives in London and faces the reality of the North Circular and the monotony of Britain. The poem of my choice is Search for my Tongue

Resilience is defined as the quality that allows people to be knocked down and come back stronger than ever. Resilience is demonstrated throughout the novel Defending Jacob by William Landay, and the ancillary texts “If” by Rudyard Kipling, and “The Third and Final Continent” by Jhumpa Lahiri though different literary devices. The similar conflicts of Defending Jacob and “Third and Final Continent” help develop a theme of resilience throughout the stories. Another literary device that helps to show

Credit here must be given to Kipling for doing a fantastic job at transliterating different accents and dialects. That's usually difficult for an author to pull off convincingly, but here it is flawlessly done. Particularly effective is when Kim and other characters switch from translated Hindi, fluent and full of thees and thous, to transliterated English that comes out like "Oah, I am verr-ee sorr-ee, Sahib," and can't help but be read with the author's intended diction and cadence. The

‘If’ is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling. In the poem Kipling tries to give us the advice for life, where in life balance of things are required, stay humble, avoid extremes. Through this advises the poem talks about the theme of hope, love from a father and wisdom in life. The writer delivers a powerful message that we can all take away with a hope for a brighter more peaceful future. The author talks about the theme of hope. In the poem it portrays to find goodness even in the darkest circumstance

CHAPTER-3: KIM AS A PRESENTATION OF THE ISSUE Kim is as unique in Kipling’s life and career as it is in English literature. It was first serialised in America, in McClure’s Magazine, December, 1900 to October 1901; in England, in Cassell’s Magazine, January to November 1901. Kipling’s works aimed at a broad base for an audience, both McClure’s and Cassell’s were known as late-century publications which incorporated techniques of the “new journalism” like muckraking, as well as sensationalism and

“ Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “If” by Rudyard Kipling are 2 poems that have a parent writing to their kid trying to teach them in a different way. In “Girl”, there is a mother writing to her daughter to tell her directions to become the perfect girl. In “If”, the father writes to his son to teach very important life lessons. These two poems have a similar topic but a different setting and theme. There is going to be some evidence and reasoning to back up the similarity and differences. A similarity

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster [a]nd treat those two imposters just the same," says Rudyard Kipling, "[. . .] [y]ours is the Earth and everything that's in it." The world seems topsy-turvy, the lines between victory and defeat, happiness and horror, can be blurred. In Rudyard Kipling's short stories "His Majesty the King" and "The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," he broaches disheartening topics such as opium addictions and dysfunctional families to exhibit real life problems in society

Comparing and Contrasting “If and Girl” Introduction: In “Girl by Jamaica Kincaid” and “If by Rudyard Kipling” are two poems that a girl and boy that have a odd lifestyle. “Girl” is about a girl who has a mother that wants her to do anything that her daughter doesn’t want to do and in “If” there is a boy that has a father that is encouraging and he is being told stuff by his dad. They both have a similar thing, they are both poems and their endings aren’t the same, different. Similarity of Difference

"The White Man’s Burden", is one of Kipling’s most disreputable poems. The poem contains seven stanzas with rhyme scheme. The poet talks about the imperialism which is widely occurred all through history as the conquest of weaker cultures by cultures that were more advanced or had more power. Actually he writes this poem to encourage imperialists to conquer colonies which is Philippines. The author claims that it is the duty or burden of the white men to civilize the non-whites and educate them

The Poem “If” is a poem written by a father to his son to guide him and give him knowledge and wisdom of how to be an upstanding and productive man (Humanities 360, 2008). Self-confidence, patience, integrity, working hard and never giving up is the message Kipling is trying to send to his son (Humanities 360, 2008). According to Humanities 360, “Overall in the poem there is much truth and wisdom within these motivational words that seems to tap into a core within the reader, expanding virtue and