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How does Grace Nichols express her relationship with the two cultures she belong to - South American and British.
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How does Grace Nichols express her relationship with the two cultures she belong to Grace Nichols was born in a place in South America called Guyana but now she lives in London. Themes and images that keep recurring in her poems are of homesickness, emotions, her split culture, perception of self and nature. Grace Nichols shows this through images of food, senses, landscape, nature and colours. In her poems Nichols expresses her relationship with the two cultures through physical issues of travel and journey. The poem that expresses this best is Island Man. Island Man is narrated by a voice that we can assume is Nichols playing a character because it is written in a third person narrative. This poem is written from the point of view of a man. This is an effective technique because it shows us that it is not only Grace Nichols who feels this...
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