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How Does Grace Nichols Explore the Feelings and Experiences of Immigrants? In "Wherever I Hang", "Island Man" and "My Gran Visits England" Grace Nichols explores the feelings and experiences of immigrants in a variety of ways. She develops the contrasting themes of alienation and enthusiasm differently in each of the poems, for example. She also uses many types of figurative language including imagery, similes, metaphors and alliteration to describe the differences in the English and Caribbean cultures. Her use of Guyanese dialect is also evident - especially in 'Wherever I Hang' where the first line immediately gives us a sense of the confusion many immigrants seem to feel about why they have emigrated in the first place: 'I leave me people, me land, me home For reasons I not too sure...' Here, as well as suggesting confusion, the use of dialect highlights the Caribbean roots of the character, roots she still holds onto...

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