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West Indian carpenter - What the poem is about.
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What the poem is about * The poem describes the workshop and daily life of a highly skilled West Indian carpenter (lines 1-20). * His livelihood is threatened by imported steel and formica furniture (lines 21-26). * On Sundays, the carpenter becomes a sculptor, carving out of his imagination wooden figures which resemble the effigies of old African gods (lines 27-47). * He is reminded of Africa and feels anger. How the poem is written Structure and sound The poem is arranged in couplets (pairs of lines), but there isn't a regular pattern to these couplets. The line endings don't always come where we would expect them. The sense seems to 'cut' suddenly from one line to the next: The knuckles of his hands were sil-/ vered knobs of nails hit, hurt and flat-/ tened out with blast of heavy hammer. This creates a kind of unpredictability in the movement of the lines. It makes...
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