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Tom Bewley A Comparison of "No More Boomerang" and "Island Man" The poem "Island Man" by Grace Nichols is about a Caribbean man living in London who still wakes up to the sound of the sea. The poem "No More Boomerang" by Kath Walker is about how white men have changed Australian aboriginals' traditional, native life to a supposed higher standard of living brought in by "Western Civilization". "Island Man" is about how a man has had to move from his home in the Caribbean to Britain and experience another culture in London, whereas "No More Boomerang" is from an Australian aboriginal's perspective on the effect that white men have on their way of life. The poems are similar in the sense of change and the people involved disliking it and not wanting to accept it. Both characters in the poems prefer their lives the way they were, and go...

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