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Essay based on the poems "Blessings", "Hurricane Hits England" and "Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan"  

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9T. Essay based on the poems "Blessings", "Hurricane Hits England" and "Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan" What do the poets reveal about their feelings for their natural countries and for their present homes? Compare the ways in witch they make their feelings clear. Hurricane hits England, Grace Nichols was born in Guyana in 1950. After university, she worked in the Caribbean and as a journalist and reporter until she moved to Britain in 1977. She now lives and writes in Sussex. Her first book of poetry was published in 1983, the year she won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Grace Nichols also writes novels and complies Poetry anthologies for younger readers. Her Poetry celebrates life with particular warmth. Hurricane hits England is taken from her collection of poetry, Sunrise (Virago), published in 1996. The poem Hurricane hits England, shows the effects of the hurricane on a woman's thoughts. The hurricane reminds...

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